There are very few things on which almost everyone agrees, particularly when you’re dealing with feuding husbands and wives, zealous attorneys, and conservative judges all at once. But, really, there’s at least one thing that probably almost everyone would agree on: children should never be asked to testify as a witness in a divorce or...
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If you’ve been following my mini-series on discovery in Virginia divorce cases, you’re probably a little overwhelmed. With so many different tools available to us in the Virginia divorce process, discovery can be an expensive and time-consuming process, both for your attorney and also for you. You know that you’re going to get asked about...
A motion to compel is how we enforce our discovery requests. When the other side isn’t responding, or hasn’t given us all the information we’ve asked for, and the deadline has passed, we can file a motion to compel to ask the judge to force them to answer discovery (and, sometimes, to punish them for...
A deposition is a face-to-face discovery tool that isn’t normally used that often in Virginia divorce cases. It can be very valuable under the right circumstances, but it is also very time consuming and, therefore, expensive. What is a deposition? You’ve probably seen a deposition on TV. In a deposition, both sides appear with their...
Requests for admission are another tool we can use in discovery to get the information we need out of the other side. If we use them, we often send them along with the interrogatories and requests for production of documents. For more information about interrogatories and requests for production, see my blog by clicking here....
Interrogatories and Requests for Production of Documents are two of the most popular tools available in discovery. In fact, we use them in almost every single divorce case that gets to this point. Why? Because they’re relatively quick and easy, and we can usually get all the information we need from just these two documents....
“Discovery” is the fancy word attorneys use to describe the process that we use to get all the information about the guy on the other side. In a lot of cases, husband and wife don’t necessarily know everything there is to know about each other, so we’re left wondering whether there are any hidden assets...
So far, we’ve hosted two Girl’s Night Out events—the first was our End of Summer Social at 501 City Grill, and the second was a Comedy Night at the Funny Bone. We have been really pleased with the positive reaction we’ve received from our friends and clients. We saw some familiar faces at our second...