Hello, how are you doing? My name is Attorney Chad L. Simpson, and I’m one of the associate attorneys for Holcomb Law. One of the most commonly asked questions that we have here at the firm is when can you modify child support. In petition the court to modify child support, the moving party, which is the party that …
Hi. I’m Carter Allen, lead attorney at Holcomb Law. And today, I’d like to talk to you about how businesses are treated in divorces. Like many assets in a divorce, such as bank accounts, automobiles, and of course, houses, businesses owned by one or both spouses are assets which need to be divided during the process known as equitable …
Holcomb Law was recently named as one of the 2021 Best Places to Work in Virginia. The annual list of the Best Places to Work in Virginia was created by Virginia Business Magazine and Best Companies Group. This statewide survey and awards program is designed to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in Virginia, benefiting the state’s …
One of the most common questions I get as part of my divorce practice is, “How much is this all going to cost?” The short answer is, no one can really predict that. The long answer is, it’s probably going to cost a lot. There’s a couple of different factors that go into calculating how much your case is …
As a family law trial lawyer, one of the most frequent questions I am asked by clients and prospective clients is, how do I get full custody of my children? The answer to this question is neither straightforward, nor simple. In fact, it is so complicated that the code of Virginia, the law at which by we all live …
The times they are a changin’; or so the song goes. In the area of Family Law; there are several changes which take effect July 1, 2020, of which we want all the members of our Holcomb Law tribe to be aware. Probably the biggest change has to do with the area of adultery in Divorces. Formerly, a person accused …
Holcomb Law is excited to be a participant in the Daily Press Best of 2020 Awards! As you know, we have won this award five years in a row, BUT this year, they’ve changed the rules! Now, ALL law firms compete against each other—not in practice area categories! We are up against some GIANT firms, but we think we can …
Legal emancipation means a minor gaining the freedom associated with adulthood. This topic routinely provokes disagreement between children and their parents or guardians. The Commonwealth of Virginia has legal age laws that spell out how a minor can acquire many of the rights that adults enjoy.
If you are a divorcing spouse who hopes to receive alimony (legally called spousal support or spousal maintenance), you may wonder if the length of your marriage matters. Nothing in Virginia law states that the length of marriage determines your spousal support eligibility.
When the pandemic hit, we knew that we might need masks for our clients, so we tried to find some early on. They were hard to come by, but when they came in, we learned from Facebook that a local Oncology practice, certainly essential, was hurting for masks to cover their clients—clients who had no choice but to come to …