Virginia Family Law: Virginia, Maryland & D.C. Differences
Jul 27, 2012
Recently, I added the District of Columbia to Virginia and Maryland as locales where I am admitted to practice law.In the D.C. Metropolitan Area, being barred in all three jurisdictions makes sense; wh...
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Virginia Family Law: Dividing Debt in the Washington, DC Metropolitian Area
Jul 27, 2012
As our federal legislators struggle to address the mounting federal debt, family law practitioners in the Washington, D.C. Area are treading softly with diverging treatments of family debt in the Distr...
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Virginia Family Law: Postpartum Depression for Men
Nov 23, 2010
Psychologists at Eastern Virginia Medical School have recently found that new mothers are not alone in being susceptible to depression following child birth. Psychologists concluded that fathers suffe...
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Virginia Family Law: Adultery is Natural?
Nov 23, 2010
"Thank You, May I Have Another?"
David Barash of the Los Angeles Times recently commented, "[r]ight wing pro-family advocates are correct, monogamy is definitely under siege." But, he cautions his r...
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Virginia Family Law: Money May Buy You Happiness - Spousal Support
Oct 04, 2010
Does your happiness have a price tag? It depends on how you define "happy," says USA Today. Princeton economists recently analyzed the results of a Gallup poll that surveyed 450,000 Americans about t...
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Virginia Family Law: Divorce – “All the Cool Kids Are Doing It.”
Sep 08, 2010
Professor of Political Science James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, recently conducted a study of whether friends and family influence the likelihood of divorce. His study of mo...
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Virginia Family Law: Marital Waste
Jul 28, 2010
A recent New York Times article reconfirmed the findings of a 1998 study suggesting that when it comes to choosing a mate, people tend to gravitate toward a partner with spending habits opposite from t...
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Virginia Family Law: Spousal Support - Income Imputation
Jul 28, 2010
It was big news when the national unemployment rate topped 10 percent, wrote David Paul Kuhn of The Wall Street Journal. What you may not realize, however, is that "male workers crossed this same thres...
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Virginia Family Law: Children Testifying in Divorce Proceedings
May 23, 2010
ABCnews.com has reported an interesting study of high school and college students, built upon data from tens of thousands of psychological surveys in use since 1938, that concludes depression, anxiety ...
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Virginia Family Law: Secondhand Hot - Using Facebook in Your Divorce
May 02, 2010
Scientists at the University of California have recently determined that dating an attractive partner makes you more appealing to possible mates. These scientists asked volunteers to rate the attracti...
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