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John Crouch
Arlington, Virginia
I am a long-time family-law and estate-planning lawyer who believes in improving divorce and single parenthood, but more importantly, in preventing them.
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Can "conservative" churches stop breaking up families?
By John Crouch The “Child-Friendly Faith Project” has a full plate of deadly serious issues of child abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, etc. But for me, as a family law attorney, the idea of "Child-Friendly Faith” also raises other important... Continue reading
Posted Feb 18, 2020 at The Family Law News Blog
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Final Count: Virginia Enacts 59 Bills Changing Family Law, 46 More Affecting Family Life -- Total 105 Passed, 109 Failed
Updated 3/24/20 By John Crouch and Sarah Panariello This year's legislative session included many modest but salutary amendments to make family life and family law a little more efficient and fair. There were also immense amounts of mostly political legislation... Continue reading
Posted Jan 17, 2020 at The Family Law News Blog
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Great line by the Virginia Supreme Court's in-house philosopher (and perhaps the next U.S. S.Ct. Justice)
"We state the factual allegations in the complaint in the light most favorable to the insurers, giving them the benefit of all reasonable inferences that arise from those allegations. However, we do not accept the veracity of conclusions of law... Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2020 at The Family Law News Blog
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20-somethings drove most of the 1960s divorce revolution
The Rise in Divorce Rates, 1960-1974: Age-Specific Components By Robert T. Michael in Demography Continue reading
Posted Jan 7, 2020 at Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog
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Divorce in England and Wales, 1858 to date
Divorce rates data, 1858 to now: how has it changed? Continue reading
Posted Nov 25, 2019 at Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog
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Old but incredibly thorough studies of all measurable aspects of divorce in the U.S.: They don't make 'em like this anymore.
Really. Nowadays relatively little information about divorces is collected; far less is aggregated and reported; and hardly any of it is actually studied, compared, correlated, etc. But from the beginning it was not so. The CDC's web site maintains these... Continue reading
Posted Nov 21, 2019 at Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog
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Everything you could want to know about Europe's marriage and divorce statistics process
(Meanwhile, several major U.S. states don't even collect any raw data for divorce statistics) Marriages and divorces: Eurostat metadata Reference metadata 1. Contact 2. Metadata update 3. Statistical presentation 4. Unit of measure 5. Reference Period 6. Institutional Mandate 7.... Continue reading
Posted Nov 19, 2019 at Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog
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Illinois, Louisiana, Iowa have half the divorce rates of Nevada, Oklahoma, Wyoming
These are rates for 2017 -- that's how far behind the reporting of these numbers typically runs. From the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics report, Divorce rates by State: 1990, 1995, and 1999-2017. State 2017 rate (divorces per 1,000... Continue reading
Posted Nov 15, 2019 at Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog
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U.S. divorce rate hits 50-year low: 0.29%, same as 1968
And the absolute number of divorces is the lowest in the century, except for 2016. These are rates for 2017 -- that's how far behind the reporting of these numbers typically runs. The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics reports:... Continue reading
Posted Nov 15, 2019 at Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog
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Divorces per 100 marriages in 39 European countries through 2017
Posted Nov 14, 2019 at Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog
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Teasingest headline ever in Virginia Lawyers Weekly: "No-fault divorce law unconstitutional, judge rules"
No-fault divorce law unconstitutional, judge rules By: Peter Vieth September 9, 2019 - Virginia Lawyers Weekly (Actually, what Fairfax judge Steven Shannon ruled was that in a husband-free marriage, it was unconstitutional for the law to require that a “husband... Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2019 at The Family Law News Blog
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I've heard lawyers say some evil things, but this is the absolute worst:
'... Lawyer Bruce Christensen confirmed that the author has never met the boy, but denied that the youngster has expressed an interest in seeing his dad or is suffering from his absence. “This is the first time I’m hearing about... Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2019 at The Family Law News Blog
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UK, Latvia, Mississippi, Louisiana have the most single moms, and other new mind-blowing stats
Single Mother Statistics That Will Blow Your Mind Continue reading
Posted Mar 8, 2019 at Divorce Statistics and Studies Blog
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Governor approves 11 of 12 bills reforming family law, offers substitute for domestic violence bill
GOVERNOR PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE INSTEAD OF APPROVING: SUBSTITUTE FOR: HB 2042 Assault and battery against a family or household member; prior conviction; mandatory minimum term of confinement. Provides that upon a conviction for assault and battery against a family or household... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2019 at The Family Law News Blog
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When I decided to do Collaborative Divorce, I never hoped it could be this good ...
‘Til Death Us Do Part--The Unintentional Fulfillment of Their Marital Vows, Even After their Divorce By COLLABORATIVE DIVORCE AMARILLO Continue reading
Posted Sep 20, 2018 at The Family Law News Blog
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As others see us: Cultural differences that take Americans by surprise
Common To Us, Confusing To Everyone Else: Things About America That Seem Odd To Visitors From Abroad As Americans, we may feel like we’re the center of the universe, but certain cultural quirks serve as reminders that there’s a big,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 16, 2018 at International Family Law News & Analysis
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Using marital contracts to stabilize marriages: past, present, and possible
Posted Jul 26, 2018 at The Family Law News Blog
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Family law attorneys saw Kelly Rutherford case as something completely different.
"Everything the Media is WRONG about in Kelly Rutherford Custody Case" on the Divorce Matters Blog Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2018 at The Family Law News Blog
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Living trusts now automatically revised (not revoked) by divorce suits
Under HB 746, which became law July 1, transfers to a revocable living trust for the benefit of a spouse are revoked by a divorce or annulment. The trust is not revoked, just those transfers or benefits are. The filing... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2018 at The Family Law News Blog
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Words only the media uses, and sometimes even they don't understand them: Vex, blaze, slay, imbroglio & many more
It's a feature, not a bug. Sometime you do it to use the shortest word possible in a headline, other times for variety, but as Gene Weingarten points out, also to "cover" yourself, or out of dull and stilted habit and a disregard for readers and their real-life experience, forgetting... Continue reading
Posted Jul 10, 2018 at Parts of Speech
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Leading child advocate calls for trained, respected, funded legal defenders for parents
The Importance of Family Defense By Martin Guggenheim, ABA Family Law Quarterly Volume 48, No. 4 (Winter 2015) pp. 597-607 This article describes the growing field of “Family Defense,” which involves lawyers and other advocates working on behalf of parents... Continue reading
Posted Jul 10, 2018 at The Family Law News Blog
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Martha Raye: Bigger than Henry VIII in Divorce, Marriage
Singer and actress Martha Raye, honored for her tireless work with the troops in WW2, had <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Raye">seven marriages, lasting between 4 months and 9 years and averaging 3.5 years. She had 6 weddings in 19 years, 1937-1956. After her... Continue reading
Posted Jun 26, 2018 at The Family Law News Blog
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US cuts way back on asylum for domestic violence, gang violence
Matter of A-B-, Respondent Decided by Attorney General June 11, 2018 Cite as 27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018) Interim Decision #3929 Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2018 at International Family Law News & Analysis
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Forbes & "Above the Law" get one wrong -- there's no tax on divorce settlements
"Examples of settlements facing tax on 100% include recoveries ... from your ex-spouse for claims related to your divorce or children," tax lawyer Robert Wood wrote in Forbes recently. "Defamation, financial fraud, divorce, malpractice, false imprisonment — clients will be... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2018 at The Family Law News Blog
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Judicial independence is threatened because self-satisfied courts & lawyers don't listen, don't explain, don't adapt to public's needs
So says Jesse Rutledge of the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, Virginia, based on the Center's annual surveys of public opinion about the courts, and decades of working on how the courts interact with the population: "It’s really... Continue reading
Posted Jun 4, 2018 at The Family Law News Blog
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