Our law firm assists clients in a vast variety of legal matters, of which the following provides only some examples:

Family Law:

• We represent military members (active duty, reserve, and retired) and their civilian spouses in divorce cases involving, among other issues, application of the Former Spouses Protection Act and award of the Military Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP)*.
  
  
• We represent government employees, and privately employed and self-employed clients and their spouses in divorce cases involving, among other issues, division of pension plans and thrift savings accounts.
  
  
• We draft and execute premarital agreements and marital separation and property settlement agreements.
  
  
• We handle guardianships, stepparent, and other adoptions of minor children.
  
  
• We represent parents in child custody and visitation cases, including situations in which one or the other parent is attempting to relocate with children to a distant location pursuant to military orders and for other reasons.
  
  
• We represent clients on child support and paternity claims.

Criminal Law:

• We represent clients accused of felony and misdemeanor offenses, including drunk and reckless driving, in Federal and state courts.

Government and Military Law:

• We represent officer and enlisted members in court-martial proceedings, during inspector general investigations, and in responding to adverse performance evaluations.
  
  
• We represent employees of the Federal government and defense contractors during proceedings initiated for the purpose of revoking their security clearances, or for taking other adverse action regarding their employment.

Accident-Injury Law and Wrongful Death:

• We represent people injured and the estates of persons killed in automobile and other accidents.

Estate Planning

• We draft wills, general, special, and durable powers of attorney, advance medical directives, and testamentary and inter vivos trusts.

*Dugan v. Childers, 261 Va. 3 (2001), which can also be found at

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is a military survivor benefit plan (SBP) case we litigated before the Supreme Court of Virginia after having won a decision on behalf of our client in the Circuit Court of Fairfax County. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of our client finding that Federal law (10 U.S.C. §1450(i)), which states an SBP annuity is not subject to execution, levy, attachment,garnishment or other legal process, trumped the ability of a Virginia state court to impose a constructive trust on the benefits being paid to our client because a constructive trust qualifies as a legal process which the Federal statute explicitly forbids.