If you’re like most middle class Americans, at one point in your life you pinched all your pennies and purchased your first home. You did your research on the area and the school zones, and you eagerly waited to find out how much you’d prequalify to spend. When you did find out, you were shocked....
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On September 24th, our Girl's Night Out group will be getting together again! We're going to be meeting up for happy hour at Calypso at the Virginia Beach oceanfront. Now that we've been offering these events for more than a year, we've really acquired a pretty diligent group of followers. We've posted the event to...
Custody and visitation cases are some of the hardest cases in family law, because so often there really isn’t a way to win. You’re fighting with someone you used to love, on top of the fact that you’re fighting about your children—and, let’s face it, usually children really aren’t oblivious to all the fighting going...
A separation agreement is a legal contract between a husband and a wife that formally divides all the assets and liabilities of a marriage between the two. These documents are pretty critically important because, of course, they are legal contracts—which means that you really have to take it seriously before you sign. Keep in mind...
The moment things start to go wrong in your marriage is a pretty overwhelmingly terrifying moment for most women. There’s so much to grieve and so much uncertainty to manage. Not only is there the loss of the marriage and the shared future to consider, there’s also the fear associated with the process of divorce....
“Will I get spousal support?” is a question that is critical to a lot of divorcing women. After all, most of us, during our marriage, prioritize our other family members over ourselves, and our careers and other money-making prospects suffer as a result. It’s a situation I’ve seen again and again, especially since the costs...
You only have to turn on the TV to discover (if you didn’t already know) that the modern family is a complicated, messy situation that can involve all sorts of people, from parents and step-parents, to aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, sisters, godparents, grandparents, unrelated family friends, and other partners. It doesn’t really matter whether the...
Annulment is a legal process through which a marriage is erased. It’s different than a divorce, which just legally terminates a marriage. Annulment legally makes it as though the marriage never happened, whereas a divorce just ends an otherwise valid marriage. As you can probably imagine, for a lot of women, it’s really encouraging to...