The VLW Blog

Economic stimulus money means more opportunities for enforcement of child support obligations.
Virginia collected more than $639 million in child-support payments in the past 12 months, up $10 million from the previous year, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
In many cases, the Virginia Department of Social Services has relied on unemployment benefits, tax refunds and stimulus checks.
But child [...]

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You read that headline right.
In an effort to round up parents who fail to pay child support, Spotsylvania County will start putting their names on a flyer tacked onto a pizza delivery box, reports The Associated Press.
When a newspaper publishes the names of men arrested for soliciting, they call it a “John list.” [...]

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Any number of divorcing couples has learned – usually the hard way – that you can’t use child support as a bargaining chip in trying to strike a deal on a property settlement agreement.
A couple in Roanoke is the latest to get this lesson. In Wykle v. Wykle (VLW 007-8-130), the husband and wife [...]

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