#fairfax divorce lawyer | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

pronoun-fucker · 2 years ago

Text

Archived link

Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard have finally settled their defamation claims against each other — putting an end to the most bitter Hollywood divorce in modern times.

The pair’s lawyers have thrashed out a deal which will see Heard’s insurance company pay Depp $1million.

But, in an important victory for the actress, there are no restrictions about what she can talk about in regard to the case and she has accepted no guilt, MailOnline can reveal.

The pair have been locked in a bitter legal battle on both sides of the Atlantic over the last six years after Heard alleged she was a victim of domestic violence during their 15-month marriage.

A courtroom in London found in her favour, but a second case in Fairfax, Virginia, this year came out on Depp’s side.

The actress, 36, was ordered to pay $10million in compensatory damages and $5million (later reduced to $365,000) in punitive damages following the six-week case, while Depp, 59, was told to give her $2million by the same courtroom after Heard countersued for defamation.

The pair’s legal teams have been locked in discussions to avoid the pain of a bruising third trial after Heard filed an appeal. A deal was finally made over the weekend with both sides agreeing to put out a statement today at 2pm GMT (9am ET).

‘Amber is now looking forward to moving on with her life as she planned to do six years ago,’ a source close to the actress told MailOnline.

‘She wants to put this unfortunate episode behind her and turn to what she loves in life: her career, her family and her causes.’

In the bombshell statement posted on Instagram by Heard, she said ‘my life as I knew it was destroyed’ by the court cases.

She added she had lost all faith of getting justice in the American legal system, comparing it to her treatment in the UK courts, and claimed that her former husband had won in the Virginia courtroom because of a vote ‘for popularity and power over reason and due process’.

Having already sold her LA home to help fund the legal action, she didn’t want to risk losing even more. This settlement means her home insurance company will take on the payment to Depp.

‘I make this decision having lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder.’

The full statement reads: ‘After a great deal of deliberation I have made a very difficult decision to settle the defamation case brought against me by my ex-husband in Virginia.

'It’s important for me to say that I never chose this. I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed. The vilification I have faced on social media is an amplified version of the ways in which women are re-victimised when they come forward. Now I finally have an opportunity to emancipate myself from something I attempted to leave over six years ago and on terms I can agree to. I have made no admission. This is not an act of concession. There are no restrictions or gags with respect to my voice moving forward.

'I make this decision having lost faith in the American legal system, where my unprotected testimony served as entertainment and social media fodder.

'When I stood before a judge in the UK, I was vindicated by a robust, impartial and fair system, where I was protected from having to give the worst moments of my testimony in front of the world’s media, and where the court found that I was subjected to domestic and sexual violence. In the US, however, I exhausted almost all my resources in advance of and during a trial in which I was subjected to a courtroom that in which abundant, direct evidence that corroborated my testimony was excluded and in which popularity and power mattered more than reason and due process. In the interim I was exposed to a type of humiliation that I simply cannot re-live. Even if my US appeal is successful, the best outcome would be a re-trial where a new jury would have to consider the evidence again. I simply cannot go through that for a third time.

'Time is precious and I want to spend my time productively and purposefully. For too many years I have been caged in an arduous and expensive legal process, which has shown itself unable to protect me and my right to free speech. I cannot afford to risk an impossible bill – one that is not just financial, but also psychological, physical and emotional. Women shouldn’t have to face abuse or bankruptcy for speaking her truth, but unfortunately it not uncommon.

'In settling this case I am also choosing the freedom to dedicate my time to the work that helped me heal after my divorce; work that exists in realms in which I feel seen, heard and believed, and in which I know I can effect change.

'I will not be threatened, disheartened or dissuaded by what happened from speaking the truth. No one can and no one will take that from me. My voice forever remains the most valuable asset I have.

'I’d like to thank my outstanding appellate and original trial teams for their relentless hard work. I want to thank everyone who has supported me and turn my attention to the growing support that I’ve felt and seen publicly in the months since trial, and the efforts that have been made to show solidarity with my story. Any survivor knows that the ability to tell their story often feels like the only relief, and I cannot find enough words to tell you the hope your belief in me inspires, not just for me, but for all of you.

'Thank you. See you soon.’

Depp is expected to put out his own statement imminently.

While former Pirates of the Caribbean star Depp has attempted to restart his career, it is clear that the ongoing litigation has had a huge effect on it, including the actor being fired from the Fantastic Beasts franchise after the London court case.

Earlier this month, when his name was on a longlist of music which could be Brit Awards winners, there were reports that female musicians would boycott the event if he was on the shortlist.

Heard, meanwhile, has become so worried about her safety that she felt forced to leave America with her daughter Oonagh and is now living in an unknown country.

Her career has also taken a huge knock thanks in part to a vicious social media assault on her, although earlier this year she filmed independent movie The Fire and remains a part of the Aquaman 2 film which is out next year.

Last month an influential Open Letter campaign involving more than 200 domestic abuse campaigners and organisations hit out at the ongoing attacks on Heard saying: ‘Much of this harassment was fueled by disinformation, misogyny, biphobia and a monetized social media environment where a woman’s allegations of domestic violence and sexual assault were mocked for entertainment.’

The actress has pledged to continue to be a voice speaking up for women’s rights.

The vicious court battle between Heard and Depp stunned the world, drawing back the curtains on the shocking drug taking, alcoholism and violence in one of the most famous and seemingly glamorous Hollywood unions.

Depp, once one of the world’s highest paid actors, admitted to problems with both drugs and alcohol during the proceedings while Heard revealed how their love story had turned so sour.

In one of the most talked about allegations of the court case, she was accused of defecating on his side of the bed which led to her being nicknamed ‘Amber Turd’.

The pair met in 2009 when Heard auditioned for a role in Depp’s film The Rum Diary but they only got together in 2012, when they were promoting the film.

By then, Depp’s 14-year-relationship with Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his two children Lily-Rose and John Christopher was over while Heard had also split with partner Tasya van Ree.

They married on February 1 2015 but the actress filed for divorce on May 23 2016, obtaining a temporary restraining order after claiming that Depp had physically abused her during their relationship.

In August 2016 the pair reached a $7million financial settlement and Heard withdrew her request for a domestic violence restraining order.

Their joint statement said: ‘Our relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile but always bound by love. Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm.’

In April 2018 MailOnline columnist Dan Wootton, writing then for The Sun, asked, ‘How can JK Rowling be ‘genuinely happy’ casting wife-beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?’

Later that year Heard wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post saying she had been abused, but never naming Depp as her abuser.

The actor decided to sue in both cases. The London libel action was against The Sun’s publisher News Group Newspapers and Wootton but Heard joined the team when the case was heard over three weeks in July 2020 at the High Court.

The judge, who sat without a jury, ruled that Heard’s evidence was ‘substantially true’, that the actor had assaulted his wife in 12 of the 14 alleged incidents and had put her in fear of her life.

Depp’s attempt to appeal the case was turned down and so all was riding on the American case.

Filmed and watched by a huge global audience who commented on every sigh and every facial expression. The case was viciously debated on social media for six weeks and, by the end, both of their reputations had been shattered among the counter allegations of lies, abhorrent behaviour and violence.

Top media lawyer Mark Lewis said: ‘While the two main actors paid amounts that would make an English lawyer blush, a golden ticket was given to billions of people to watch dirty sheets being washed in public.

‘The case ground on to the point where both parties must have realised that the only winners were the lawyers, the entertainment was for the onlookers and the losers were Ms Heard and Mr Depp, both of whom leave the case financially much worse off.

'Now they have the support of those who have always supported them, the hatred of those who already hated them while the baffled are scratching their heads at a legal settlement that can mean anything you want it to.’

#radical feminism #radfem #feminism #misogyny #amber heard #justice for amber heard #i stand with amber heard #johnny depp #domestic abuse #domestic violence #male violence

15 notes · View notes

sundaramasamyr · 10 months ago

Text

virginia family law attorneys

#lawyers fairfax va divorce #divorce lawyers northern #divorce laws in virginia #divorce attorney in new jersey #virginia family law attorneys

0 notes

jomiddlemarch · 5 months ago

Note

My own takes, with more choices that aren't traditionally feminine jobs (ie, teaching, working with kids in medicine):

Catherine Morland: very young and seeking direction. Starbucks (or the equivalent) barista.

Elinor Dashwood: practical and critical thinker. Civil engineer, urban planner.

Marianne Dashwood: caught up by the romance of things-- starts a bookstore, struggles to keep it afloat, adds a small coffee counter, needs Elinor to help with all the regulatory stuff. Hires Wickham and he embezzles from her.

Elizabeth Bennet: I actually do think she'd make a good divorce lawyer, but for the sake of argument, I think she'd also make a good head of a non-profit and get angry at Charlotte Lucas for selling out and joining a big corporate entity, maybe VC or pharma.

Anne Elliot: I see Anne in academia and her falling out with Wentworth was when she wouldn't leave her PhD program to follow him to his. She's on track to be the department chair and is already doing 80% of the admin work for the current chair, who should retire already.

Fanny Price: I think she went into the military to pay for school, stays in for the security. Does administrative work. Wishes she could have become a pilot.

Jane Bennet: most likely to have become a preschool teacher after doing some nannying. Later in life, she might become a social worker.

Harriet Smith: Enjoys photography. Emma encourages her to try and start an art gallery, which fails almost immediately. Joins a local newspaper and does photojournalism. Gets together with John Martin, who covers local sports.

Jane Fairfax: extremely accomplished, good at keeping secrets, she goes into the NSA, does cryptanalyst work.

Margaret Dashwood: professional sailor, competes in big regattas.

If the Austen heroines lived today (and had to work outside of the home), what jobs do you think they would have?

If we look at the heroine's relative incomes, it's likely that Catherine Morland, Fanny Price, and the Dashwoods would require professions, as clergyman and naval marine don't pay that well today and the Dashwoods lost their inheritance. Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse, and Anne Elliot are all trust fund babies, though Elizabeth and Anne would likely get jobs since their families are blowing all their money and they're not idiots. Emma is the only one who genuinely would not need to work, even in a modern context. I am not going to assign her a profession, I suspect if she existed in a similar context today she would manage her father's affairs, run the family company, and a charity, much like she does in the novel.

Catherine Morland - in university, is in a very general program and has no idea what to do with her life. Ends up in some sort of childcare career because she knows she's good at it but still scrolls through job pages imagining what else she could do. Writes very bad novels on the side.

Elinor Dashwood - public school art teacher, secure career path with a solid pay cheque, never even considered becoming an artist

Marianne Dashwood - concert pianist/piano instructor reluctantly, because piano playing doesn't pay well, failed lyricist. Has a very popular YouTube channel

Elizabeth Bennet - I see lawyer SO OFTEN in fan fiction, but I disagree. This observer of human nature is getting sucked into psychology and becoming a researcher. She'll realize how bad of a judge of character she can be pre-Darcy because now she has evidence. May become a therapist as well.

Anne Elliot - Anne is so intelligent, she can be whatever she wants. She's so good with kids too, maybe a pediatrician? She threw herself into education after the Wentworth thing.

Fanny Price - the Bertrams paid for her university education and she chose the most guaranteed source of income: accounting. Companies will always need accountants and she can help support her family.

Jane Bennet - I can see her also choosing a very practical career but then dropping out of the workforce to be a stay-at-home mom. Charles has enough money to make that work.

#jane austen characters

213 notes · View notes

ameliass · 6 months ago

Text

#lawyer #divorce lawyer #law firm

1 note · View note

anushiya · 1 year ago

Text

Divorce Decoded: Strategies from Richmond's Premier Legal Minds

Introduction Fairfax Divorce Lawyer is a complicated and emotionally difficult process that many people go through at some point in their life. It includes the dissolution of a marriage, asset distribution, and decisions about child custody and support. We will delve into the complexities of divorce in this blog article, giving you with helpful ideas and techniques from Richmond's top legal brains.

Understanding the Legal Framework Before diving into the strategies, it is important to have a basic understanding of the legal framework surrounding divorce. Divorce laws can vary from state to state, and it is crucial to familiarize yourself with the specific laws in your jurisdiction. In Richmond, Virginia, the legal process for divorce involves filing a complaint, serving the complaint to the spouse, and attending court hearings to address various issues.

Strategies for a Smooth Divorce Communication is Key: Open and honest communication with your spouse can help facilitate a smoother divorce process. Manassas Divorce Lawyers Try to set aside any animosity and focus on finding mutually beneficial solutions.

Seek Professional Guidance: It is highly recommended to consult with a reputable divorce attorney who specializes in family law. They can provide you with expert advice and guide you through the legal proceedings.

Consider Mediation: Mediation can be a less combative and more cost-effective alternative to traditional litigation. A neutral third party, known as a mediator, assists you and your spouse in reaching a mutually suitable arrangement.

Protect Your Assets: Make asset protection a top priority during the divorce process. Gathering financial documentation, receiving assessments for significant assets, and analyzing the tax consequences of asset split may all be part of this process.

Focus on the Children's Best Interests: If you have children, their well-being should be your main focus. Divorce Lawyers Richmond VA Work on developing a parenting plan that meets their emotional and financial needs.

Conclusion Divorce can be a challenging and overwhelming experience, but with the right strategies and guidance, you can navigate the process more smoothly. By understanding the legal framework, seeking professional advice, and prioritizing effective communication, you can work towards a fair and amicable resolution. Remember, the premier legal minds in Richmond are here to support you every step of the way.

#legal

0 notes

010401 · 1 year ago

Text

From Where to Hire Divorce Lawyer in Fairfax

It is apparent that getting divorced is never a happy choice. This causes a great deal of suffering and anguish not just for the couples, but also for everyone in the family. Divorce rates in Fairfax have risen for a variety of reasons. The folks here are forced to live individually and file for divorce due to their lifestyle and temperament. Uncontested Divorce Lawyer Fairfax VA may help with this by offering an improved awareness of the law and the full separation process. It is now necessary to create an easy way for such people to decide on many variables like child custody, asset division, hiring a mediator to mediate the matter if possible, and so on.

Divorce is an expensive process, and the applicant must pay significant lawyer's fees as well as other expenditures. Dedication and time are two other crucial elements to consider while filing for a divorce termination in Fairfax. When there is so much at stake in this procedure, do not save on the standards of the attorney and hire exactly the best attorney for divorce in your area. This will not only help you file the case and manage the entire process, but it will also decrease stress and future difficulties.

When you decide to leave your relationship, you will lose contact with other relatives who will be affected by your decision. As a result, think twice before proceeding and speak with an experienced divorce attorney. In many different situations, you will have a Best Divorce Lawyer Fairfax VA by your sides who will help you and ensure that your rights are protected. Thus, why tackle the matter yourself when industry specialists can advise and assist you in making the best decision?

You can obtain help from the internet, friends, and even visiting the specially designed websites of the best attorneys and legal companies to get a professional and proper divorce attorney in Fairfax for your case. You can schedule a personal consultation with the attorney to examine the matter and determine whether you're qualified in the situation at hand. Before you choose a lawyer, you should investigate his or her expertise, prior case judgement, and capability. Choose only the Uncontested Divorce Lawyer Fairfax among the best legal companies in your region. You might also hire an attorney or an assortment of lawyers to help you with the lawsuit.

#law #law firm #lawyer #judge #reading

0 notes