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 to debate politics. In fact, I’m not a particularly political person. But I thought Biden’s response was so sweet. He admitted his son’s struggle with … [Read more...]
Parenting Capacity Evaluations in Virginia Child Custody Cases
In many types of cases, we can do a basic cost benefit analysis to determine whether something is worth pursuing in litigation. For financial assets, because they can be valued (even when “value” is a range, or there’s some kind of intrinsic sentimental value), that’s more or less easy to achieve. We can tell, at some point, that it’s just not worth continuing to fight for something if the value isn’t there. Child custody is not one of those things. There is no specific, set “value” you can put … [Read more...]
