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By Katie Carter
April Girl’s Night Out with Hofheimer Family Law If you made it to our Valentine’s Day Girl’s Night Out event at the Banque, you know what I’m talking about! We started our Girl’s Night Out event series several years back after Kristen Hofheimer, our former managing partner, noticed a need among a lot of her clients. Complaining of losing friendships, specifically “couples” friendships, our clients seemed isolated and unable to connect with the people to whom they were formerly closest. Divorce … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
Do I have custody of my child? People care for children every single day and haven’t been to court to have custody and visitation determined. In most cases, those people don’t really worry about custody; they just have their kid, and they take care of him (or her). Things only really start to become a problem when there’s turmoil in the relationship between the parents. When the parties break up, for example, or when some formerly uninvolved parent resurfaces and suddenly wants time. I also … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
I just need easy Virginia divorce paperwork I hear things like this all the time. “I just need an easy uncontested divorce,” or “I need my divorce paperwork filed.” Sometimes, it even takes on a sort of insulting tone, “I just need a paper pusher to finalize this divorce.” “There are no issues,” I’m assured. “It’s just an easy divorce.” Is there any such thing? Well, sure. It can be pretty easy, though that’s not to suggest by any stretch that what attorneys do when it comes to divorce is … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
I’m pregnant – and it’s not my husband’s baby! It happens, probably more frequently than you’d realize. And, though it sounds a little scandalous on its face, in my experience, that’s almost never the case. In most of the cases that I’ve seen where a wife gets pregnant with a baby that is not her husband’s, it’s after a period of long estrangement where both parties knew (even if they didn’t want to admit it) that the marriage was headed towards divorce. If you’re pregnant and it’s not your … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
We've had a Valentine's Day event for the last several years now, and we've found that they're a pretty tremendous success! Whether you don't have a Valentine this year, or whether you'd just prefer to celebrate with girlfriends rather than a man, you're not alone. And isn't that a beautiful thing? If we've found one thing to be true over time, as we host more and more Girl's Night Out events, it's that we're not alone. Whatever we're experiencing, there's always someone else out there … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
Fee Waivers and Scholarships for Hofheimer Family Law Seminars and Events If you’ve been following us for any period of time, you know that education for Virginia women facing custody and divorce cases is kind of our schtick. There’s no one else out there with divorce and custody related information specific to the Commonwealth of Virginia and targeted exclusively to women. The goal, of course, is to give women the information they need to make the best decisions possible for themselves and … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
When do I give up divorce negotiation and go to court? It’s the million dollar question: “When do I give up negotiation and go to court?” At some point in many cases, there’s a time where it seems like further negotiations are pointless. When you’re at an impasse, and you just want your divorce finalized already, it’s easy to wonder whether going to court wouldn’t just be easier. In many cases, the answer is simple. You go to court when the financial advantage to doing so will likely … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
Is my separation agreement modifiable? We talked on Monday about two of the big problems associated with finding a form separation agreement on the internet. There are all sorts of issues you can run into in family law cases, and, in an ideal world, you’d be informed about exactly what they are and what you can expect. A good way to do that, at least at the outset, is by attending one of our monthly divorce seminars or requesting a copy of our free divorce and custody books. After all, … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
Form Internet Separation Agreement Reason number 2390123 I am more than a little terrified of random form documents that people find on the internet… Okay, well, honestly, in this case, two reasons: (1) people put in things that are in the form agreement “because it was on the form and just thought it needed to be in there” and (2) they put in provisions that aren’t enforceable or don’t make sense and then end up disappointed or annoyed and also in a position where they have to spend a lot of … [Read more...]
By Katie Carter
Can I get back child support? In a lot of ways, child support is one of the easiest issues in a divorce or custody case. It’s one of those things that is more or less easily established, since the calculation is based on a formula. You plug in certain criteria – the incomes of each of the parents, the cost for work related child care, the cost for healthcare coverage for the children only, support for other children, etc – and then, depending on the custodial arrangement (whether one parent has … [Read more...]
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