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By LOU HATTER
Arundel Newspapers Staff Writer
For attorney William A. Slover and his family, their move to Rappahannock County last summer was the beginning of an adventure, and the fulfillment of a dream.
As a successful lawyer with a ■practice in Newark, N.J., Mr. Slover, his wife Terry and their son John often visited her parents, Helen and the late John Guthrie, at their home in Castleton. Mr. Guthrie was a commercial artist in Washington, D.C. who bought property in the county in 1957. The couple moved here to live when he retired in the mid-’70s.
“We would visit here as often as we could,” Mr. Slover said. “One weekend, driving back on the New Jersey Turnpike about 9 p.m., we thought to ourselves, ‘Why are we doing this?’ And that was that.”
In one sense, for Mr. Slover and his wife the move brought them closer to home, as well as to her parents. He grew up in Arlington, and Terry was raised in Annandale. Mr. Slover received his bachelor’s degree from George Washington University in 1980, and his law degree from George Mason Law School in 1983.
From then on, Mr. Slover said, “it was just a matter of logistics: finding office space, selling our house, giving notice at my job.”
Though he specialized in real estate law in New Jersey as an attorney for a title insurance company, the newest member of the Rappahannock County Bar Association said he is pursuing a general practice here.
“In some ways my background is pretty well suited to general practice — real estate and criminal defense work is the backbone of a rural lawyer’s practice.”
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