Divorce & Custody Law Library

Relocation cases are often a double edged sword. You’re (excuse my language) damned if you do and damned if you don’t. No matter how you slice it, it’s hard to win a relocation. We’ve talked about these cases every which way from Sunday, it seems like to me, but there are always nuances or different…

It’s confusing to hire an attorney. It’s not something you do every day. And what’s involved to hire one is different across different areas of the law – so experience that you might have with, say, a personal injury attorney, or a wills, trusts, and estates attorney – doesn’t necessarily translate to experience like what…

The question “do we both need an attorney?” is an interesting one, and one that I would answer in three ways: yes, no, and maybe. What seems like an easy question (is there ever an easy question?) is really a lot more complicated than you might think at first blush. The easy question is actually…

In Virginia, only attorneys licensed by the Virginia Bar Association can represent clients by appearing in courts in the Commonwealth. An attorney can be licensed in one of two ways – either by attending an accredited law school and passing the bar exam (by far the most common method), or by “reading” the law, which…

At least a few times every single week, we get a man who – despite our pretty significant web presence and consistent women-only branding – calls our office about hiring an attorney for a divorce or custody case. When we tell him that we represent women only, he gets angry. Typical, right? He tells us…

Relocation cases come up a lot. It turns out, many of us move somewhere that we might not otherwise have moved in order to support our spouse’s career. It happens a lot, and not just for the military! The problem is, though, that when things end up not working out, the spouse who moved regrets…

You might be surprised to hear how often a marriage ends in divorce – only to later find the two people involved back together again. I know it surprised me, when I first started, how many times we could divorce the same people. But for all the people getting their second divorce from the same…

There are always lots of fights over custody and visitation. I imagine, to some extent, that there always will be, because parents who separate after having children typically do so because of substantial compatibility issues. Wherever there are compatibility issues, there are often big differences in philosophies when it comes to raising children. To some…

Last week, I wrote an article about dads in response to a really interesting TED talk I listened to recently. It’s not that often that I come across content so closely aligned with what I do, and I always think that it’s both interesting and instructive to listen to what the other side (in this…

Divorce is … complicated, especially emotionally. I probably don’t need to tell you that, because here you are, but still. I feel like it’s unreasonable and unrealistic to have this conversation without admitting that fact. So, there it is. In divorce, there are issues that are easy – meaning that the law is clear on…