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By Katie Carter
What if my child’s father has abused drugs and/or alcohol? Drug and alcohol abuse is an issue that comes up all the time in custody cases. Sometimes, it’s nothing but an embittered former partner making nasty allegations in order to bolster their own case. Sometimes, it’s more than that. And, when you feel like your child’s father has a problem (or, worse, you know for a fact that he has a problem), you probably feel that you owe it to your child to at least look into these … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
Drug or Alcohol Use and My Virginia Custody Case Drug or alcohol use can pose problems in a Virginia child custody case, as you can probably pretty well imagine. Judges – who are notoriously conservative, especially in Virginia, and especially when it comes to things like drug use – don’t like it. In Virginia (as in pretty much everywhere), custody cases always comes down to what’s in the best interests of the child. Is living with (or riding in a car with) a person with substance abuse issues … [Read more...]
3 Things to Keep in Mind When Refinancing Your Home Real property is often one of the biggest items to address in divorce and we have to figure out what will happen to it. A lot of our clients tell us they want to keep living in the former marital home after the divorce, which typically involves a refinance. There are things you need to keep in mind when making that decision: The first question to ask is” Do I Need to Refinance?” If you and your husband are listed on the mortgage and deed, and … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
In honor of our former managing partner, Kristen D. Hofheimer, who passed away on January 19, 2019, after a long battle with breast cancer, we’ve decided to shake things up a bit. We’ve always been the first, largest (and, obviously, BEST – oh, wait, sorry, I’m just a little bit biased) family law firm in Virginia dedicated to representing women exclusively. Kristen was, of course, a very large part of that – she literally wrote the book on Virginia custody cases for moms (The Woman’s Custody … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
How does a retainer work in a divorce case? Some of the most frequently asked questions we get are about money, and how it all works when you hire a divorce lawyer. It’s a little extra confusing because different attorneys handle money differently, so, if you’re not already fairly familiar with how law firms do things, it can look a little wonky. There are law firms that work on contingent fees (“no fee unless we get money for you!”), flat fees, and attorneys who, like us, do work on … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
Spousal Support and Abuse Abuse is, for me, always one of the harder subjects to discuss. It's not that it makes the law complicated, or really that it changes what a person might be entitled to receive -- but maybe that's part of the problem for me, too. Abuse changes a person. After years and years of it, it slowly, subtly, completely changes a person. If you've suffered years and years of abuse at your husband's hands, you probably feel like a shell of the person you once were. You're … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
I can’t afford a Virginia divorce lawyer. Legal representation is expensive. I get it. And it’s often especially scary because, at the beginning of a case, it is difficult to know how far and how long it’ll go. Family law attorneys take cases on retainers, and work is done on an hourly basis. We don’t know how long a case will last, or what it will take, before all is said and done. And with some cases – like custody, appeals, or enforcement of an agreement – things can pop up later on down … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
Our very own warrior princess, Kristen Hofheimer, passed away Friday, January 18th, 2019, after a long struggle with breast cancer. If you knew Kristen, consider yourself lucky. She was a truly exceptional human being, and a fantastic family law attorney – one of the best in the state of Virginia, particularly when it came to handling complicated custody cases. She was kind, empathetic, and completely impossible to ruffle. She was the former managing partner of Hofheimer Family Law Firm, … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
My juvenile court case got appealed! What now? The downside of the juvenile court is definitely the appeals situation. Well, that’s the downside if you won in the juvenile court, anyway. If you lost at the juvenile court level, well, then, it’s absolutely your right to appeal! (Funny how there are two sides to every coin, right?) But, today, I’m really talking about what happens if you won in juvenile court, and the opposing party notes an appeal. It can be incredibly frustrating, especially … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
I have my divorce (or custody) trial tomorrow! How do I prepare? Well, first off, let me say: I’m writing this because, like you, I have trial tomorrow. (Well, at least, as of the day I actually wrote this, anyway.) When I first started here (which was over seven years ago now), I asked one of the most senior attorneys when you stopped getting nervous before court hearings. He looked at me, completely seriously, and said, “I’ll let you know when it happens.” One of the other attorneys in … [Read more...]
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