By Tom Turbeville | Published February 17, 2018 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Divorce Lawyer- Yoffy & Turbeville – Legislators are Poised to Streamline Process of Divorce
Our Virginia Legislators are poised to streamline the ease of obtaining a divorce where the defendant party is served with the divorce complaint and fails to file an answer or otherwise appear. Both houses of the General Assembly have passed bills to make it a little easier and faster to obtain a divorce when this occurs. Read More
Read MoreWell, life outside of law is heating up. Tom Turbeville’s son, Thomas, a senior at Lafayette High School, has just won the Regional High School Championship held in New Kent this past weekend. Wrestling at 182 he won his all-Bay Rivers final 13-0 over Grafton’s Caleb Harris. Awesome performance as he follows in his father’s Read More
Read MoreFinding insurance coverage in major accident cases is of the upmost importance. Too often, we have serious injuries and not enough insurance coverage to adequately pay for the injuries caused and the damages done. It takes an experienced attorney and a “no stones unturned” attitude to find all of the coverage. TWL has filed a Read More
Read MoreStraight talk is an attribute of our firm. One of The Williamsburg Lawyers, Tom Turbeville, was recently asked to represent the wife of a Magistrate. The client and her husband were being sued by a prisoner who claimed that the Magistrate had failed to take certain statutory factors into account in setting his bond at Read More
Read MoreWe have gotten lots of comments about the black and white photos in our office so here is a little background on one of them. By far the one most commented upon is our photograph of the Statue of Liberty. It’s because if you look closely, Liberty’s face is actually a collage of all the Read More
Read MoreDelegate David Albo (R) has introduced House Bill 84 which sets forth a rebuttable presumption favoring joint physical custody in cases where a no fault divorce is granted. The Bill would add language to the Va. Code section 20-124.2 that would state: In any action in which a decree for divorce is entered on the Read More
Read MoreRecently, Attorney Kenny Yoffy obtained a dismissal of criminal charges against his client on the grounds that the statute on which the charges were based was unconstitutional. The statute was 18.2-417, an archaic gender based statute which made it a crime to falsely speak and impute to a female acts not virtuous and chaste. The Read More
Read MoreSpoliation is the failure of one party to preserve the evidence in a matter where it should reasonably believe it will be a party litigant. There is limited legal precedence in Virginia about the perimeters of the spoliation doctrine. Our firm along with Rich Rizk of Geddy, Harris, Franck and Hickman recently sought sanctions against Read More
Read MoreOk…Our first blogging venture……Hopefully it will come as no surprise to you but The Williamsburg Lawyers, both Tom and Kenny, have lives and interests outside of the law. Ouch! Yes, we are regular guys. Love sports, love the arts, love people, love things and love to travel. So you will find us blogging about a Read More
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