DC and MD Matrimonial Lawyer Focusing on Custody, Divorce and Prenups
For over 20 years, Regina A. DeMeo has been helping families in MD and DC with custody and divorce issues either through mediation, litigation or advocacy. She is an alumna of Georgetown University and GW University Law School, who is nationally recognized as a top matrimonial attorney. She is frequently quoted in the media for her ideas to promote healthier relationships and featured in the Washington Post, ABA Journal and Bethesda Magazine for her care and commitment to her clients. As a legal commentator, she has appeared on Washington Post Express Facebook Live, ABC tv, Good Morning America, MMCTV, YouTube and Sirius XM, and has been quoted in various magazines, books and journals across the country.
Regina offers appointments in Maryland and DC. Her areas of practice include:
Latest Blog Posts by GenXSmartie
5 Steps to Help Cast Out Evil Spirits
My grandmother was a very spiritual person, and she definitely believed in evil spirits. When I left home at 14 to go to boarding school, I'll admit I forgot some of the lessons she passed on to me, mainly because in those ivory towers, I was shielded from many of the harsh realities of life. But after a decade of living in my beautiful Utopia, I was sent back off into the real world, armed with an incredible amount of knowledge and my pen as my sword to go fight in the legal arena. Admittedly, in the beginning I enjoyed the brawls, and many of my colleagues probably remember the victory dance that I'd engage in after a blood bath where I'd annihilated my enemy. Those were the days... NOT my glory days, but rather the days when the dark side almost got the best of me. Giving the gift of life to another brought on a new set of responsibilities, and changed my view about the world. I began to re-think the values I wished to instill upon this newborn warrior-- and I do mean to use the word warrior because the last 15 years I have seen a very sinister side of humanity, which has convinced me that my grandmother, who lived to the ripe old age of 97, indeed had it right-- there are evil spirits in this world. [...]
Standing Up to Bullies
Every single week I seem to have to deal with bullies-- not the school yard type, although I'm sure it probably started back then, but I mean the grown up version that like to make threats as a sick way of feeling in control or powerful. You can't let their threats scare you-- although of course, you have to be careful and protect yourself, but to give in to their demands just empowers them further. For every inch you give, they will take a mile, so if there is one thing I can tell you unequivocably, it is this: DO NOT CAVE IN. Whether you win or lose against a bully doesn't matter as much as the fact that you stand up and fight. This is the same advice I would give to a child just as much as I would to an adult, perhaps much to the chagrin of some school counselors out there, but my point is that sooner rather than later in life you have to make it clear that you will not be anyone's doormat. For me this defining moment occured at the age of 8, when I confronted my first adult male bully. This is how I know it can be done early on, and your size doesn't matter, it is your fiesty spirit that will allow you to confront a bully of any age [...]
The True Color of Money
When I see green, I think of plants and natural life, but when money discussions come up, all I seem to be surrounded by are people either out for blood using their lawyers as hired guns, or wanting to die by ingesting all sorts of crap into their system that obviously isn't doing a good enough job of numbing their pain, but will surely kill them one of these days. Suffice to say, these last 15 years, I have seen a very dark part of our society, and in my humble opinion the true color of money should be red to symbolize the fiery hell it is creating here on Earth. For 25 years, I have been observing the rich and famous, ever since they granted me access to their world when I was shipped off to an elite boarding school through a scholarship program for gifted but underprivileged NYC youth. This is why I don't have the typical immigrant mentality, which focuses on survival. I grew up with old-money values: (1) don't flaunt your wealth, (2) pursue something you are passionate about, and (3) give something back to society. The problem is that these old-money values are increasingly rare to find in a technologically advanced world obsessed with instant gratification. The tragedies that hit our headlines every day, the most recent one being [...]
Is College Worth All That?
In this month's Money Magazine there is a whole article about "Does College Still Pay Off?" and many other journals have been asking similar questions, especially with law school and the dearth of jobs for recent grads. As many parents struggle right now to justify their expenses, and brace themselves for the departure of their kids heading off to college or grad schools next month, let me just weigh in on this timely issue with a few additional thoughts that may not be getting coverage in the press. First of all, between the ages of 18-25 a young mind is aborbing information like a sponge. These are formative years in brain development-- and the time to maximize on learning potential is early on, not later in life. During this time, we are given the tools that we will need to think critically and be analytical. Learning from the great minds and masters of various subjects is how we build the future leaders of our country. They will have the rest of their lives to focus on work, but this very narrow window of time to finish honing in on key skills that will serve them the rest of their lives. Second, aside from measuring the return of your investment in dollars, how about taking into account certain intangibles that cannot be quantified? How could you possibly measure the [...]