What is Parental Alienation and How Can You Fight It?
Divorce can be extremely difficult but even more so when children are involved. Parents are often concerned with how their children will cope with the major life change and how ...
The Difference between Alimony and Child Support
When a couple is going through a divorce case in Virginia, there are two different financial awards that a judge can order one spouse to pay to the other. These ...
Mental Health Issues and Parental Rights in VA
While once taboo, mental health and the issues that may afflict it are now openly discussed more than ever. As a result, the struggles that most faced in private, have ...
What Should You Do When Snow Impacts Your Custodial Exchange?
With varying schedules and often a bit of resentment, establishing the custody of a child can often prove difficult for co-parents. But even after custody has finally been agreed upon, ...
Documenting Your Separation
The date upon which you and your spouse separate and cease living together as a married couple can have significant implications in your divorce. The date of separation affects when ...
Calculating Child Support in Virginia
Each state has its own processes, usually a formula, for calculating child support. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, this formula is governed by Virginia Code § 20-108.2. The most important ...
New 2020 Laws in Virginia Domestic Relations
Here in Virginia, we have a part-time legislature that meets to consider and pass laws, typically, for just one thirty-to-sixty-day session per year. Part of our job as attorneys is ...
Will I continue to receive spousal support or child support payments if my spouse dies?
In the vast majority of circumstances, when a party paying child support and/or spousal support dies, those payments end with the payor’s death. Thus, if you are receiving support, it ...
Premarital Agreements
Many of us get married in a happy cloud of romance without knowledge of or thought about numerous economic consequences of marriage imposed by law. Premarital agreements serve a useful ...
What’s the Best Parenting Plan When it’s Not Amicable?
There’s no denying that parenting is difficult. But when the relationship between you and your child’s other parent doesn’t end on good terms, it can be even tougher. Often times ...