How would my friend go about appealing or overturning a 1st degree murder conviction.

Try Sheldon & Flood in Fairfax - they do appeals & habeases all over Virginia including a lot of capital punishment cases, including the DC...

My fiancee is a Singapore citizen and is married, can we get her divorce filed from the states?

She would have to live in a particular U.S. state for long enough to meet that state's residency requirements, for a continuous period immediately...

Do I need a lawyer to find out if this email is legitimate before I sign any paper work?

All I know is, there are a whole lot of e-mail scams that start off that way. I get about 20 of them a day, which makes me a virtual trillionaire...

I recently got divorced the 20th of last month

If no one submitted a name-change order in the divorce case, I think it's too late to do one, but that's OK, it's pretty easy to do a separate...

Single mother legal rights

At the hospitals, they try to discourage the mother from omitting such crucial information from the birth certificate. Also, as soon as the child...

Need advice

Since the people on here don't actually know you, we can't tell you why you lost. Ask your lawyer and the Guardian Ad Litem, if there was one....

Can I terminate my ex's parental rights

Terminating a father's parental rights usually involves having a new husband adopt the child as a stepfather. However, if that's not a...

I want to establish my parents as legal guardians of my child in the event something happens to me, what is the process?

The way to do that is in a will. If your daughter's other parent is still alive when you die, then in most cases naming guardians for her will...

If a parent loses all custody is this person still considered a "person with legitimate interests"? VA

"Person with legitimate interests" is a phrase from the statute on standing to be a party to a custody case. This person is a parent of the child,...

If a lawyer was involved, it would not have done literally as one single "joint will" -- it would be individual documents, each one signed by one...