Legal Question in Family Law in Virginia

Unhealthy relationship

While I was on a 6 month deployment in the Navy, my wife became involved with anither man. To the exact extent she will not admit to, but he has spent several nights in our house while my 9 year old was present. They did things together as a family like going to the zoo, out to diner and weekend trips. Since my return home, I have told her that I want to work on making our marriage work. She continues to call, text and email him from her job. She says that he is contacting her but she is not responding. At night, with our daughter present and awake, she yells, screams and tries to pick fights with me. It got to the point I had her parents come over and they decided that it was not a good enviroment for our daughter. I have since been staying with my daughter at my in laws. I have not denied my wife anytime with our daughter. She now tells me that I have established residensce with her parents and she is going to change the locks on our house. Can she do this?


Asked on 11/27/07, 10:03 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: Unhealthy relationship

You presumably now have as much right to occupy the marital home as your wife, absent a court order which says otherwise.(The fact that you were temporarily staying somewhere else in no way alters this fact.) If such be the case, then if your wife changes the locks on the doors to your house, you would still have the right to enter upon and occupy these premises even if it required the aid of a locksmith to get you in.

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Answered on 11/27/07, 3:13 pm


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