Regina F. Amick represents individuals in areas of Family Law and Domestic Relations.  With more than twelve years of experience, Ms. Amick is skilled at trying and negotiating divorce actions, child custody and visitation, child support, spousal support, division of retirement, and negotiating and drafting Separation Agreements.  As a Navy spouse herself, Ms. Amick enjoys representing military personnel and their families and has extensive experience in military divorce law.

Before joining Wolcott Rivers Gates in 2008, Ms. Amick was with a law firm in Chesapeake, Virginia, where her practice focused on family law and criminal defense.  Prior to private practice, Ms. Amick served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Karen A. Murphy Jensen in the Circuit Court for Caroline County, Maryland. After that, she prosecuted criminal matters, before moving to Virginia Beach in 2004.  Ms. Amick started her career on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. for the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives.  Ms. Amick is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law and is licensed to practice law in both Virginia and Maryland.

Areas of Practice:

Divorce

Child Support

Child Custody

Complex Divorce Litigation

Mediation/Settlement Conferences

Prenuptial Agreements

Postnuptial Agreements

Property Division

Separation Agreements

Spousal Support

Family Law

Civil Litigation

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Maryland State Bar

• Virginia State Bar

Maryland State Bar

Virginia State Bar

Litigation Percentage

99% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

Maryland, 2003

Virginia, 2005

Representative Cases:

Turner v. Turner, 47 Va. App. 76.  Affirmed my client’s position:  Where a final divorce decree provided that the wife would be entitled to 50% of the marital share of the husband's pension, the trial court did not err in entering a QDRO after his retirement, because the QDRO did not create substantive rights, but only effectuated the express intent of the final decree under Va. Code Ann. § (K)(4).

Education

University of Maryland School of Law, J.D. 2003

Frostburg State University, B.S. 1999

Pro Bono

C.L.A.S.S. Program– Concerned Lawyers Advocating Spousal Safety - Virginia Beach Bar Association.