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Where a husband who is separated, but not yet divorced, from his wife uses his paycheck to buy a car and furniture, the car and furniture should be classified as separate, not marital, property, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ...

Separate property was not the only issue decided in Dietz v. Dietz (VLW 093-7-604). The appeals court also ruled, on a first-impression issue, that divorce judges do not have the authority to award an income tax exemption from one spouse ...

A Northampton County man may go forward with his emotional distress claim against a psychologist who originally provided marriage counseling to the man and his wife, but who later, during solo counseling with the wife, began an affair with and ...

A state trooper’s desire to find out if a motorist was having any mechanical difficulty was not a justifiable reason to stop the motorist’s pickup truck, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled. In overturning the defendant’s drunken driving conviction, ...

Virginia’s DNA matching system made its first “cold hit” – a match between crime scene evidence and a genetic sample in state forensic records – and provided probable cause for the arrest of a rape suspect. The case comes as ...

In making an equitable distribution award, a judge may properly consider pre-marital contributions made by a husband and wife who lived together before they married, the Court of Appeals has ruled. But cohabitation alone, absent a showing of an impact ...

The Norfolk law firm of Hofheimer, Nusbaum, McPhaul & Samuels has started a pro bono program. But the program is not a pet project of just a few partners-every lawyer in the firm participates. The project works like this: The ...

It was Friday, Oct. 15. The Bar Pass List had just been released, and 1,249 lives hung in the balance. A few hundred of those 1,249 people called Lawyers Weekly to find out their fate before the next day’s mail ...

Transferring a case from one lawyer to another is never entirely easy. Attorneys need to gather files from work they’ve done and turn them over to new counsel. They may need to negotiate fees for the work they’ve done. They ...

Last Friday, a group of medical malpractice defense attorneys moved their practices from a medium-sized Richmond law firm to a larger Richmond-based firm. Three attorneys and their support staff left Russell, Cantor, Arkema & Edmonds to join Wright, Robinson, McCammon, ...