Whether you visit a coworker in a large apartment complex or swing by your local big box store to pick up some paper towels, you don't expect a visit to public facilities to end in injury. Like most people, you presume that the property owner or business manager will...
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Month: July 2021
While traffic was down in 2020, fatalities were up
One potential upside of having so much less traffic on the roads in 2020 should have been a decrease in fatal accidents. After all, these stats tend to decline in normal years, so you’d assume that fewer cars would mean fewer accidents and deaths. However, recent...
How do parents sharing child custody deal with the advance child tax credit this year?
When divorced parents share custody of their children equally, there are different ways they can claim child tax credits. If they have one child, they may alternate years claiming that child as a dependent. If they have more than one child, they may each claim one or...
What happens to your pet when you file for divorce?
Job loss, social isolation and the news in general put a lot of strain on people over the last year. As stress levels rose, a significant number of Americans decided to adopt a pet to help their mental health. For the most part, it looks like that idea worked. Many...
How can Virginia Med Pay insurance help me after a car crash?
It can be hard enough to make sense of an automobile insurance policy when you are shopping around for one. If you are dealing with the pain or stress of a major car crash, analyzing your insurance policy and coverage can be even more difficult. Many people are...
Do I need a health care directive and a durable health care power of attorney?
Don't put off establishing an estate plan until "later." It's ideal to handle all your estate planning early to ensure that you have a plan in place. Some of the first documents that you'll want to draft are a health care directive and durable health care power of...
Why shared custody is on the rise in Virginia
Societal norms concerning marriage and child-rearing have altered with time. Once people realized that a woman’s place was not “in the kitchen” or that a woman’s sole purpose in life was not to bear children, it opened up space for fathers to make their own claims for...