There are as many different sizes and shapes of families navigating the complexity of different types of coparenting relationships as there are fish in the ocean. As much as its difficult to reconcile your every day reality with the reality of what you see from friends and family on social media, it is important to...
Monthly Archive: November 2021
There’s never an easy answer to the “I don’t have money for my divorce” question. I’m a lawyer; I’m not really in the business of making money appear where there isn’t any. In family law, there are a lot of different kinds of cases, though, and, in most of them, there is some money....
If it’s your first year dealing with a new coparenting arrangement through the holiday season, you’re not alone. Each year we hear the same things, over and over again, from the moms who are having to experience navigating a new normal at the so-called ‘most wonderful time’ of the year. In a lot of ways,...
There are a lot of struggles between coparents when the relationship between them breaks down. And, just like each child has his or her own struggles, each set of coparents struggles with different parts of their changed family dynamics at different points in their journey. I’ve seen a lot of really, really nasty, tragic,...
Separation agreements are one way to resolve a divorce in Virginia; the only other alternative is to go to court and litigate in front of a judge. Ultimately, in the vast majority of cases, the parties themselves decide that they’d rather be responsible for dividing the assets and liabilities of their marriage between the two...
We all have medical histories. But, for some of us, the information contained in our medical records may be more damaging than what’s in others. I’ve always felt it was a little silly when they had me sign HIPPAA disclosures so that they could talk to my husband, my mother, or other family members about...
Support – both child and spousal – is often a big issue in a lot of Virginia divorce and custody cases. Mostly because ex-husbands don’t want to pay it, and ex-wives are in desperate need of it. Usually, imputation of income is a bigger issue in a spousal support case, so I’ve written a fair...
In a divorce, EVERYTHING needs to be divided before the judge can sign off on it. But what’s everything? What needs to be divided in a divorce? Ultimately, the parties either negotiate the terms of their divorce in a separation agreement, or the judge issues an order and divides everything in court. Most cases resolve...