Financially, custody cases can be complicated. In most cases, custody cases come about as part of a divorce or breakup because, after all, when two people are happily together, things like support, custody, and visitation rarely come into play. It’s when people decide to break up, whether they’re ending a marriage or a relationship, that...
Monthly Archive: March 2015
On Monday, we talked about the fault based grounds for divorce in Virginia, but that’s not all you need to know about fault based divorces. There are lots of different reasons to file on fault, which we’ll discuss here, but there are also other things you need to know, too. How do you file? What...
We get calls all the time with people asking for information about each of our attorneys so they can decide who to meet with for their initial consultation. In most cases, they’ve already done a Google search to look at their online bios, their Avvo pages, and anything else they can dig up on the...
Even though attorneys tend to talk about all the different ways to get divorced (negotiation, collaboration, litigation, and so on), it’s really a bit misleading. Though there are different methods that you can choose to apply in your specific case, there are really only two ways to get divorced: in court, or by drafting and...
It’s hard to know where to cut costs in your divorce. It seems like, when it comes to legal fees, there are lots of places where you can cut costs. But, like we discussed on Wednesday, the things that most people tend to think are the most important when it comes to making a decision...
Unlike traditional divorce, the collaborative divorce process takes place in a comfortable atmosphere-outside of the courtroom....
Before you file for divorce in Virginia, you have a lot of decisions to make. Some of those decisions are made for you. If, for example, your husband refuses to sign any separation agreement ever, or you separated and now he refuses to pay any support at all, he can force your hand for you. ...
If you don’t already have plans, you should join us next week for our Girl’s Night Out event. We’ll be in Newport News this time (because one of our attorneys, Shannon Lemm, practices there, and we’ve got to show the Peninsula girls some love, too) at the Brewhouse Tavern in trendy Port Warwick. We were...