Can I just waive child support?

Can I just waive child support?

As soon as your child’s father realizes the connection between parenting time and child support – basically, the more time he takes, the less he’ll pay – he’ll probably start asking for more time, whether he actually wants more time or not. So, the immediate, and natural, reaction most moms have is, “Well, what if...

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Is 50/50 child custody best for children?

From the beginning, let me be clear: in Virginia, there is no law requiring that custody start out at 50/50.  Though that is the law in some states, that is not the law here.  Here, the law is that the judge has to consider all forms of custody – primary, shared, and split physical custody...

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The problem with dads

As you already know, if you’ve found me and the Hofheimer Family Law website itself, I represent women only in family law cases in Virginia. I don’t – nor have I ever – represented husbands or dads, though I have a husband and a dad and I know that they are not all terrible. At...

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Moms are just better equipped to raise children.

  When it comes to raising children, we all have a million different ideas about how it should be done – and, the thing is, they can vary pretty dramatically from one person to the next, or from one family to the next. As a mother myself – and a family law lawyer dedicated to...

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