The nexus between debt and divorce has occupied the Virginia Court of Appeals this week. In a published opinion out of Hanover County, the appellate court said in Marvin v. Marvin that a husband’s debt of attorney’s fees to wife ...

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Frank J. Santoro has been named a bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District of Virginia in Norfolk, to replace David H. Adams who will retire Jan. 2, 2008, upon the completion of his term of appointment. Santoro (right) is expected ...

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A former bankruptcy attorney was sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Leslie W. Lickstein, 54, of Fairfax, was accused of preparing a false settlement statement in the sale of a ...

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There is a legal story that’s been floating around the Internet that is worth pulling to ground and blogging about. Last month a lawyer from a big firm in Chicago was handling a case in federal bankruptcy court in Miami. ...

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In case you’ve been waiting for a Virginia court to weigh in on the theory of “deepening insolvency,” that time has come. The theory is a way of holding corporate directors liable for operating a financially strapped company in a ...

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