If you drive southwest on Interstate 81 for a couple of hours, you will come to the town of Lexington. That's where a Washington & Lee University senior attended a fraternity party on a winter evening, just over a year ago. The night ended tragically when the...
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Month: January 2015
What can parents pay for with child support funds?
Some noncustodial parents accuse the parent with custody of the kids with misusing child support funds. For their part, custodial parents often claim that the money the noncustodial parent pays in not enough to meet the children’s needs.These complaints are...
Virginia gets five-star rating for DUI efforts
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers has issued its annual report, and the Commonwealth of Virginia has once again received the highest award of five stars. The report gives a star to states in each of five categories focused on DUI prevention and punishment efforts.Virginia...
Ignition interlock devices: long-term solution to DUI problems?
Regular readers of our Leesburg DUI defense blog will recall that we took a look at ignition interlock device research back in early November of last year. Because installation of the devices is one of the punishments Virginians often wish to avoid after a DUI arrest,...
Fight continues over $972M divorce decree
A billion-dollar divorce order is being contested by both spouses. The oil tycoon who was ordered to pay his former wife $972 million of the marital assets says it is too much, and the ex-wife says it is too little.Attorneys for Harold Hamm, who was estimated to be...
A bad start to a new year
For those arrested in Loudoun County on New Year’s Eve for DUI, the new year has lurched to a bad start. You face an array of possible penalties, all of which are among the nation’s harshest for drunk driving.The punishments for a first offense DUI (also...
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