Legal Question in Family Law in Virginia

If you remain in the same home with other person and are claiming you are separate and apart for six months or one year, etc. - the other person may claim otherwise. What proof will you have that you have remained separate and apart? There may be a problem!

No. The trick is that you must have a friend or relative that visits you during the period of separation (preferably a couple of times) and they can testify that they saw the two of you were living in separate parts of the house, that you haven't since cooked dinner for each other, did each other's laundry, etc or act otherwise married. So you can separate in the same house even if he doesn't believe it is a separation if you act as described above.