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Primary Physical Custody and Child Support
I’ve talked about custody every which way from Sunday, but often with more emphasis on shared physical custody than primary physical custody, even though moms almost always tell me, within minutes of our first meeting, that they want sole custody of their children. Failing that, of course, the next best thing is often primary physical…
Filled under: Child Custody Tag with: ADDICTION | appeal | best interests of the child | CHILD ABUSE | child custody | child support | primary physical custody | sole custody | super dad
I slept with my husband — are we still separated?
There are a lot of divorce-related things that are difficult to discuss, but it’s important to hire an attorney with whom you can be honest. There are not a whole lot of things that feel worse than finding out – at trial or some other inopportune moment – that you don’t really know what’s going on…
Filled under: Divorce Tag with: affidavit | divorce | divorce seminar | no fault divorce | one year | separation | separation under the same roof | sex | six months | uncontested divorce
What property in a divorce is marital?
In most cases, my clients have been with their husband for a number of years, accumulating a number of possessions – both consequential and inconsequential. Though we don’t often spend much time dividing the sheets and bath towels, other things, especially big ticket items like houses and cars, do occupy a fair amount of time…
Filled under: Property Dispute Tag with: DIVISION | house | hybrid property | inheritance | marital property | prenuptial agreement | property | real estate | separate property
50/50 Custody in Virginia
Custody and visitation are always major hot button issues in divorce and custody cases, especially because there are so few guarantees. The whole ‘best interests of the child’ standard means that there’s not a standard custody and visitation arrangement ordered; it’s a subjective, not an objective, process, which means that a variety of different arrangements…
Filled under: Child Custody Tag with: 50/50 custody | custody | custody agreement | juvenile court | parenting time | primary physical custody | separation agreement | shared custody | split custody | virginia judge | visitation
What is cohabitation? Am I cohabiting?
OCTOBER 28, 2020 BY KATIE CARTER Cohabitation is a key component of legal separation in Virginia. For a lot of reasons – chief among them being the fact that separation is a sort of loosey goosey concept here in Virginia – we get lots of questions about separation. When are you separated? Am I separated? Do we have to…
Filled under: Separation Tag with: adultery | affidavit | cohabitation | FAULT BASED GROUNDS | immediate divorce | legal separation | litigation | Second Saturday | separation agreement | separation under the same roof | uncontested divorce
Should my child be in therapy during my custody case?
OCTOBER 26, 2020 BY KATIE CARTER Contested cases are hard on everyone involved. I work with women, so my perspective is often that of the wife and mother. I actually rarely see children. It’s really not appropriate; for me to do my job, I have to have conversations with my client that could be harmful for…
Filled under: Child Custody Tag with: abuse | BROKEN HOME | children | coparenting | custody | free books | litigation | mental health | parenting education seminar | PHYSICAL VIOLENCE | therapist | therapy | TOXIC MARRIAGE | virginia
Business Valuation and Divorce
I hesitate to use absolutes, because, in law, there are very few. We rarely say “never” or “always”; we often say “it depends”. But I’m pretty sure I can absolutely say that, if you or your husband own a business, your divorce is going to be more expensive than a divorce where we have two…
Filled under: Divorce Tag with: BUSINESS | business valuation | DIVISION | divorce | expert | FAMILY BUSINESS | litigation | separation | SMALL BUSINESS
Addiction and Child Custody
Drug and alcohol addiction is a serious problem in our society. Many families have loved ones who struggle under their addictions for years and years at a time. Watching the recent presidential debate, where President Trump mentioned Senator Biden’s son, who was discharged from the military because of his struggle with addition. I’m not here…
Filled under: Child Custody Tag with: ADDICTION | alcohol | best interests of the child | custody | custody book | custody seminar | drugs | MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL | PRESCRIPTION PILLS | rehab | sober | sobriety | supervised visitation | TREATMENT | visitation
Child Abuse and Virginia Custody Cases
Child abuse cases are seriously some of the most harrowing cases that family law practitioners have to deal with. To be honest, I can only imagine what it must feel like to have children in a position where you worry that, if your child’s father receives custody, they may be abused or mistreated in any…
Filled under: Child Custody Tag with: CHILD ABUSE | COPARENTING RELATIONSHIP | court | custody | custody book | divorce | free report | litigation | mental health | mental illness | reunification | separation
What can I expect at a divorce seminar webinar?
As you may have recently heard, we’ve transitioned our thirty year old baby, Second Saturday: What Every Virginia Woman Needs to Know About Divorce, from a seminar to a webinar on Zoom. It was a change that was both made necessary by the pandemic and also just reality; people want to turn more and more to…
Filled under: Divorce Tag with: attorney | divorce seminar | DIVORCE WEBINAR | fee waiver | legal advice | Second Saturday | What Every Virginia Woman Needs to Know About Divorce | ZOOM
Which family law attorney should I hire?
It’s probably safe to say that you don’t hire an attorney every day. And, when it comes down to it, it seems like kind of a scary thing to do. How do you know who you’re hiring, or what the experience will be like? Will you be just another name on a file on a…
Filled under: Divorce Tag with: attorney | caitlin walters | custody book | divorce | divorce book | family law | girl's night out | lorna rhoades | seminar | webinar
What Does Best Interests Of The Child Mean?
You can’t get very far down the road in a custody and visitation case without coming up against “best interests of the child”. There’s a version of the best interests factors in almost every state (at least, as far as I’m aware), and these factors make up the basis of how custody and visitation cases…
Filled under: Child Custody | Child Support Tag with: BEST INTERESTS | breastfeeding | child custody | child's preference | custody book | CUSTODY FACTORS | DADS WIN CUSTODY | MOMS LOSE CUSTODY | MOMS WIN CUSTODY | nursing | relocation | reunification
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