The VLW Blog

Divorce lawyers looking for a benchmark for monetary awards may want to check out a recent Court of Appeals case. Lawyers know there is no rule requiring a 50-50 split of marital property. But arguments about who contributed what to a marriage often degenerate into “he said, she said” contests. Then something approaching an even [...]

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We’ve reported stories in the past about road hazards caused by stuff spilled on the highway. Concrete. Fruit. A load of eggs on the Beltway in Northern Virginia. Here’s a new one: Chicken fat. If that sounds pretty gross, it was. A tanker was carting chicken fat, a processing byproduct, from a Perdue poultry plant [...]

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