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Mr. Long Comments on Virginia Case Law:

Fowlkes v. Fowlkes (.pdf)

Facts: Husband and wife build an addition on wife's separate property using only the separate funds of each party.

Ruling: Wife's separate property remained 100% hers. She resisted placing the property in joint names, and her resistance led to the breakup of the marriage.

Mr. Long Comments: If the husband had made the same investment of his separate funds in property that was marital and had he been able to trace the money back to a separate account of his, the result might have been different. This case demonstrates the importance of a premarital agreement or consultation with an attorney before investing money in property belonging to someone else!

Mr. Long's Blog:

April 29, 2008: Link to Mr. Long's Technorati Profile

April 26, 2008: Wachovia Allegedly Facilitated Telemarketers in Ripping Off Elderly Customers

April 25, 2008: Probable Cause Eliminates Rights Under Fourth Amendment

April 25, 2008: Hedonic Adaptation and Litigant Settlement Posture

April 5, 2008: Donald P. McDonough, Chief Judge of the General District Court of Fairfax County, Virginia announced in open court on April 2, 2008: "Unlike some of my junior judges, I’m not spending my time whittling away square pegs for round holes."

March 25, 2008: Pearson v. Callahan and the Fourth Amendment Privilege Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures.

March 16, 2008: Eliot Spitzer Breaks Bad.

March 10, 2008: The Declining Significance of Reality.

March 10, 2008: Treating a Symptom Rather than the Disease: The New York Times reports in an editorial this morning that the United States has more prisoners than any other country with reliable statistics.

March 8, 2008: Monterey Bay Fish Grotto: A New Tysons Corner Seafood Niche.

February 29, 2008: The Ledbetter and Holowecki Employment Discrimination Decisions Deal with a Procedural Deadline and with Form, Respectively.

February 29, 2008: Failure to Timely Remedy Identity Theft Costs Equifax $150,000 for Violation of Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Family Law/Divorce

Mr. Long Recovers Twenty Thousand Dollars of Back Alimony Plus Attorney Fees When Husband Disobeyed Alimony Order by Paying Creditors Instead of Paying Wife. (more)