A question I get often is what are my parental rights if there is no custody order in place? In most states, the answer is it depends. If you were married to the other parent, and are listed on the child’s birth
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Sometimes parents will ask if the grandparents have any rights to visitation during their divorce or custody case. In 2000, the United States Supreme Court decided Troxel v. Granville, which stated that parents have a fundamental right to the “care, custody, and
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As summer starts, many working parents start to wonder when they can leave children home alone. There is no federal law regarding the age at which children may stay home or babysit. Very few states have any laws on the subject either.
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A Virginia man, Jesse Lee Herald, chose to get a vasectomy as part of his plea agreement in a child endangerment case. The agreement will shave off up to five years of his of his prison sentence. Herald has at least seven
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With graduation season in full swing, many parents are thinking about college. For parents going through a divorce, the question becomes a matter of who is going to pay for college. In Virginia, child support ends when the child turns 18; or
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As school comes to an end, seniors across the country play senior pranks. It’s a tradition that’s very common, and so most of the time students don’t get in much trouble about it – except to receive clean-up duty. Not the case
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No one likes to find out their spouse has been cheating. Adultery can be very difficult to prove, but it has serious consequences in divorce cases in Virginia. 1 – Adultery is crime in Virginia. In the Virginia Code, adultery is defined
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Last week, police in Waynesboro arrested two men for huffing an aerosol can. Huffing is a form of inhaling intoxicants, either by the nose or mouth. Inhaling noxious fumes has been an easy and cheap way to get high. While the products
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Divorce rates are high, and so divorce has recently lost its stigma as a failure. Instead of being embarrassed or devastated, many people are looking at it in a positive light. Divorce parties are creating the atmosphere of optimism and rebirth –
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Many people brush off a misdemeanor offense as minor, but the truth is misdemeanor convictions have major consequences. A misdemeanor is a serious charge that is punishable by jail time. Usually, individuals convicted of misdemeanors are ordered to pay hefty court fines,
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