You have been ordered by a Virginia court to undergo drug testing related to your child custody case. Terrified, you comply. And then you have to hope. You have to hope that an owner of the testing laboratory dealing with your test does not alter or forge your results. Hey, it happens! Well, It’s Not Alabama You live in Virginia, a ...
Virginians sure have some peculiar ideas about how life works. For example, say a man wanted to attack his wife and a man with a knife. Where is the worst possible place to commit such an awful crime? How about outside a courthouse? You know, like a big government building overflowing with police officers. The Virginian-Pilot reports that a Chesapeake man with poor decision-making ...
The common cuckoo bird engages in a brutal behavior scientists call brood parasitism1. The female cuckoo lays her eggs in other birds' nests. Quick-hatching cuckoo chicks hatch before their nestmates. They push the other bird eggs out of the nest to the ground below, leaving the foster bird mom to feed only the cuckoo. From the cuckoo we get the ...
The words are deliberately menacing: "... authority to punish as contempt of court any willful failure of a party to comply with the provisions of the order ..." Virginia Code does not cut parents any slack in court orders, even when the subject is the fickle heart of a tween or teen. What could happen to you if your child ...
The Centers for Disease Control tells us that, in 2017, 34.6 percent of Virginia's births were to unmarried mothers. The Old Dominion ranks 39th for births to unmarried mothers1. Sometimes, those single Virginia mothers feel compelled to place their children up for adoption. Some Virginia men choose to step up and take responsibility for the children they sired, by contesting ...
Most Virginia men are honorable. They take responsibility for the children they sire, either in or out of marriage. Part of that responsibility includes costs for medical care. After a divorce, for example, you may agree to cover a large portion — even the majority — of medical bills for your child. It is noble. It is the right thing to do. ...
The treadmill may be both a metaphor for undesirable work and an actual exercise tool for the 21st century, but at one time is was very real and very bad. According to Smithsonian magazine, “Its inventor, English engineer Sir William Cubitt, thought the labor would help ‘reform stubborn and idle convicts.’” Sometimes the aftereffects of divorce can make a Virginia man feel ...
The Bunny Hutch is a fine Virginia Beach spot to take the little ones to meet adorable animals. We support the fine work its conservation wing does. The Bunny Hutch is not, though, the sort of place anyone feels compelled to return to week after week. Yes, it's the home of Junior, "America's Biggest Bunny," but frequent visits could result in ...
Antonio found his wife's old love letters. Unfortunately for his wife Rosa, she had not written the amorous notes to Antonio, but to her lover. Antonio sued for divorce. At the time, says Vintage News1, Antonio was 99, Rosa was 96, the affair had taken place 60 years earlier, and the couple had been married for 77 years. Antonio's and Rosa's ...