After divorce, it’s not surprising that many children have difficulty recovering. Depending on the age and sex of the child, however, the effects of divorce can be dramatically different. Studies, as early as the 1970s, show that younger children (most particularly, preschool-aged children) are more immediately affected by divorce, showing signs of separation anxiety, insomnia,...
Monthly Archive: December 2012
There is a common societal misconception that divorcing women everywhere are cackling and scheming together about all the various ways that they can get as much of the money, property, retirement and other assets from their husbands as possible during the divorce. There’s even a nice little slur created specifically for these women: Gold diggers....
Ask about collaborative divorce if you’re seeking family law legal services in Virginia Beach. This option may be a good choice, especially if you have children, because it promotes cooperation and utilizes experts who can help with certain aspects of the divorce agreement. Couples dealing with both children and divorce should take into consideration the...
When women hear about the possibility of voiding a contract as a result of duress, they are usually excited. But the truth is that it’s probably easier to give an alligator a root canal than it is to prove to a Virginia judge that a contract should be overturned. Duress is, broadly defined, a threat...
In the news, I’ve seen a couple reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger wants a reconciliation with his estranged wife, Maria Shriver. It’s kind of a sweet story, if you take out the part about the mistress and the now-grown illegitimate love child the Terminator fathered without his wife’s knowledge and kept secret for years and years....
Technology has created more ways than ever to spy on our husbands—but that doesn’t mean it’s legal. It happens all the time: a client comes in and tries to hand us a five-inch binder filled with tear-stained copies of all the emails she found when she hacked into his email account. “He cheated on me,”...
If you’re facing a custody battle, the question is usually not whether you’ll lose custody, but to what degree you and your child’s father will share custody. In the majority of cases, one or the other parent doesn’t “lose” custody at all. In cases where the child’s father doesn’t fight for custody, the typical custodial...
If I were representing a man who wanted to get primary physical custody of his child, I would tell him one main thing. I would tell him to remember that a custody case begins and ends with the best interests of the child factors, and that a mom’s downfall is usually with factor number 6....