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Regina Amick

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  • Maryland
    2003

  • Virginia
    2005

  • University of Maryland School of Law
    J.D. – 2003

  • Frostburg State University
    B.S. – 1999

  • Maryland
    2003

  • Virginia
    2005

  • University of Maryland School of Law
    J.D. – 2003

  • Frostburg State University
    B.S. – 1999

Regina F. Amick was raised in Maryland and has been licensed to practice law in Maryland since 2003 and in the Commonwealth of Virginia since 2005.  Ms. Amick has focused her practice solely on domestic relations matters including divorce, separation agreements, spousal support, division of property and retirements, child custody, child support.  Ms. Amick has extensive experience handling complex business and property divisions, utilizing experts spousal support matters, business valuations and property valuations.   She also has extensive experience in military divorces and related military  retirement and VA disability issues. Ms. Amick has been with Wolcott Rivers Gates since 2008 and currently serves as one of the managing partners.

Ms. Amick currently serves as Chair of the Virginia State Bar Board of Governors for Family Law, after having served as Vice-Chair and Secretary in years’ past.  She is also an active member of the Virginia Bar Association and holds the position of Vice Chair for the Domestic Relations Executive Council, after having served multiple years as the Continuing Legal Education Chair, coordinating, and teaching statewide lectures and seminars to her peers. She has served on the Virginia Bar Association's Commission on the Needs of Children, and volunteers with the C.L.A.S.S. Program of the Virginia Beach Bar to assist victims of domestic violence.  She has served as co-chair to the Norfolk Portsmouth Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Committee, where she coordinated and/or moderated or served as faculty to numerous CLEs. Ms. Amick holds the position of Vice President in the I’Anson-Hoffman American Inn of Court, which strives to maintain civility and professionalism to the practice of Family Law.

Ms. Amick has been recognized within the profession for the following achievements: Influential Women of Law, by Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 2020, Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia in 2017 – 2022, Legal Elite 2018 – 2023, Best Lawyers U.S. News and World Report, Super Lawyer 2021, 2022, 2023. 

Ms. Amick has coordinated, moderated or served as faculty for the following CLEs:

  • Three Headed Dragon: The Intersection of Real Estate Deeds, Divorce, and Taxes, Virginia State Bar, Faculty, 2024
  • 40th Annual Advanced Family Law Seminar, Virginia State Bar and Virgina CLE, Moderator, 2024
  • NPBA: Essentials of Equitable Distribution: Marriage as a Partnership, 2020, Faculty
  • Zoom Training for Lawyers – Using it Securely and the Ins and Outs of Mediating Electronically, NPBA 2020
  • Everything You Need to Know about Cost Basis, NPBA, 2020, Coordinator
  • The Anatomy of a DUI case in District Court: Evidentiary issues, best practices and mitigation, NPBA 2020, Coordinator
  • Virginia CLE: Essentials of Equitable Distribution: Marriage as a Partnership, 2019, Faculty
  • 129th VBA Summer Meeting: The Incapacitated Client: How to Ethically Represent a Client with Impairment from a Family Law Perspective (ethics), 2019, Faculty
  • Understanding a Tax Return and Business Valuations, NPBA, 2019, Coordinator
  • Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and Spousal Support, 2019, Inn of Court, Contributor
  • Valuing Businesses in Family Law, 2018, NPBA, Coordinator and Moderator
  • Calculating Multiple Custody Child Support Guidelines, NPBA, 2018, Coordinator and Moderator
  • Family Law Assortment: Custody and Visitation Cases with Military Parents; Spousal Support Post Retirement: A review of Driscoll v. Hunter; Qualified Domestic Relations Orders: Do’s, Don’ts and What’s New, NPBA, 2017, Coordinator and Moderator
  • Guarding the Guardian and Military Issues, NPBA 2018, Coordinator and Moderator; Guarding the Guardian was approved by the Virginia Supreme Court for GAL certification credit
  • 36th Annual Family Law Seminar: The Incapacitated Client: How to Ethically Represent a Client with Mental Health or Substance Abuse Issues from a Family Law Perspective (ethics) (presented live in Fairfax, Richmond and Virginia Beach), Virginia CLE, 2017, Faculty
  • ESI & the Litigator: A Primer, NPBA, 2017, Coordinator
  • Battle of the Same Sexes: The Legal Impact of Same-Sex Marriages on Custody Post Obergefell, NPBA 2016, Faculty
  • I’Anson Hoffman Inn of Court: Lawyer Wellness 2021

  • Three Headed Dragon: The Intersection of Real Estate Deeds, Divorce, and Taxes, Virginia State Bar, Faculty, 2024

  • 40th Annual Advanced Family Law Seminar, Virginia State Bar and Virgina CLE, Moderator, 2024

  • NPBA: Essentials of Equitable Distribution: Marriage as a Partnership, 2020, Faculty

  • Zoom Training for Lawyers – Using it Securely and the Ins and Outs of Mediating Electronically, NPBA 2020

  • Everything You Need to Know about Cost Basis, NPBA, 2020, Coordinator

  • The Anatomy of a DUI case in District Court: Evidentiary issues, best practices and mitigation, NPBA 2020, Coordinator

  • Virginia CLE: Essentials of Equitable Distribution: Marriage as a Partnership, 2019, Faculty

  • 129th VBA Summer Meeting: The Incapacitated Client: How to Ethically Represent a Client with Impairment from a Family Law Perspective (ethics), 2019, Faculty

  • Understanding a Tax Return and Business Valuations, NPBA, 2019, Coordinator

  • Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and Spousal Support, 2019, Inn of Court, Contributor

  • Valuing Businesses in Family Law, 2018, NPBA, Coordinator and Moderator

  • Calculating Multiple Custody Child Support Guidelines, NPBA, 2018, Coordinator and Moderator

  • Family Law Assortment: Custody and Visitation Cases with Military Parents; Spousal Support Post Retirement: A review of Driscoll v. Hunter; Qualified Domestic Relations Orders: Do’s, Don’ts and What’s New, NPBA, 2017, Coordinator and Moderator

  • Guarding the Guardian and Military Issues, NPBA 2018, Coordinator and Moderator; Guardian the Guardian was approved by the Virginia Supreme Court for GAL certification credit

  • 36th Annual Family Law Seminar: The Incapacitated Client: How to Ethically Represent a Client with Mental Health or Substance Abuse Issues from a Family Law Perspective (ethics) (presented live in Fairfax, Richmond and Virginia Beach), Virginia CLE, 2017, Faculty

  • ESI & the Litigator: A Primer, NPBA, 2017, Coordinator

  • Battle of the Same Sexes: The Legal Impact of Same-Sex Marriages on Custody Post Obergefell, NPBA 2016, Faculty

  • I’Anson Hoffman Inn of Court: Lawyer Wellness 2021

  • Influential Women of Law, by Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 2020

  • Selected as one of Coastal Virginia Magazine’s “Top Lawyers”, 2017 - 2023

  • Selected as a Best Lawyer, U.S. News & World Report

  • Selected and listed as one of Virginia’s “Legal Elite” (Family Law/Domestic Relations), Virginia Business Magazine, 2018 - 2023

  • Super Lawyer - 2021 - 2023

  • Virginia Bar Association, Commission on the Needs of Children

  • Virginia Bar Association, Domestic Relations Section Executive Council

  • Virginia Bar Association, CLE Chair Domestic Relation Executive Council

  • Virginia Bar Association, Family Law Section

  • Virginia Beach Bar Association: Virginia Beach Juvenile and Domestic Relations Committee

  • Parent Advisory Board, Catholic School

  • Ms. Amick serves on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Beach Neptune Festival and was honored to be named a Triton on the 2023 Royal Court.

  • Ms. Amick participates in the Virginia Beach Bar Association C.L.A.S.S. Program, which provides pro bono representation to assist victims of domestic violence obtain Protective Orders.

  • Ms. Amick also serves on the Parent Advisory Board to her children’s school and has been responsible for significant fundraising events that directly provide financial aid to children requiring assistance to attend Catholic school.

  • 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. § 20-107.3(K)(4).

  • Regina F. Amick & Andrew T. Richmond, The Business of Marriage: The Non-Divorce Attorney’s Impact on a Divorce, 72 Virginia Lawyer, June 2023, at 29.

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