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...]
Virginia Custody Cases Where There is Abuse
As a mother, you would do anything for your children. It’s a cliché and yet, at the same time, it’s also incredibly true. It’s something I’ve witnessed time and time again in my practice, talking to moms who are in the middle of fighting for, or are preparing to fight for, custody of their children. In most cases, though that protective momma bear comes out regardless, custody is a relatively simple thing to determine. Both mom and dad are reasonably good parents, though they were (for … [Read more...]
