Sadly, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, there are more than 441,000 children who are affected by a noncustodial parent who refuses to pay child support. The Virginia Department of Social Services Division of Child Support Enforcement was created to help parents recover money to look after their child's well-being. The Child Support Recovery Act of...
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Raising a child can be financially draining, especially if you are a single parent. If you are interested in getting an increase in your Virginia child support, you should contact an experienced Virginia divorce attorney. You may be owed an increase in child support if your child’s expenses have recently gone up, or your ex-husband...
How long your divorce will take really depends on the kind of divorce you’re trying to get. A contested case almost always takes considerably longer than an uncontested case. What’s the difference? Well, in an uncontested case, you and your husband have already reached an agreement on how the assets, liabilities, and responsibilities in your...
An uncontested divorce means that all issues between you and your husband are resolved. There are no disputes as they relate to money, the children, the house, the debt, everything is settled preferably in a written separation agreement. A no-fault divorce simply means that there are no fault grounds. It simply means that you're not...
How long your divorce will take really depends on the kind of divorce you’re trying to get. A contested case almost always takes considerably longer than an uncontested case. What’s the difference? Well, in an uncontested case, you and your husband have already reached an agreement on how the assets, liabilities, and responsibilities in your...
Susan Pease Gaduoa gives three keys to finding the right divorce attorney. Finding an attorney is easy. Finding the right attorney is the trick. If you look in your local yellow pages, you will see that attorneys can have many types of specializations and there is often no shortage of them. Click on this link...
When you’re talking about a custodial arrangement for your children, you have to consider two different kinds of custody: (1) legal custody, and (2) physical custody. Legal custody deals with the right to make three kinds of decisions on behalf of the child: (1) non emergency medical care, (2) religious upbringing, and (3) education. Legal...
When a parent is granted primary physical custody in Virginia, the child lives exclusively with that parent and, in nearly all cases, the other parent has visitation rights that occur on a set schedule. The custody arrangement-also referred to as sole legal custody-can be beneficial for the child, but it also presents some challenges, which...