Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

Family law practitioners would support a rehabilitative alimony statute and a mandatory termination of spousal support for cohabitation, according to a survey conducted by the Family Law Section of the Virginia State Bar. However, respondents did not favor changes to ...

The Virginia Court of Appeals has reversed a woman’s conviction for driving on a suspended license because the arresting officer acted solely on the anonymous tip of a passing motorist. The officer did not ask the informant how he knew ...

A lawyer may argue in circuit court that a sexual assault claim is barred by the Workers’ Compensation Act, then turn around and argue before the Comp Commission that a comp claim based on the same incident belongs in circuit ...

An association of Virginia collection agencies wants to have legislation introduced into the 1993 General Assembly which would allow the agencies to prepare warrants in debt for their creditor clients. A draft proposal of a “right of assignment” statute currently ...

A woman whose health maintenance organization paid her medical bills is entitled to recover damages for those same medical bills in a suit against the HMO for medical malpractice, an Alexandria federal district judge has ruled. The HMO argued that ...

The Internal Revenue Service has given its imprimatur to limited liability companies organized in Virginia. In a long-awaited ruling issued on Dec. 28, the IRS found that a company organized under Virginia’s Limited Liability Company Act is a partnership for ...

If a campus police officer makes an arrest, where that arrest took place may make the difference between conviction and dismissal, reports Fairfax attorney Roy J. Baldwin. Baldwin related this traffic court experience, where location turned out to be everything: ...

The Virginia Women Attorneys Association has endorsed an attempt to revive the retroactive application of Virginia’s childhood sexual abuse statute by amending the Virginia constitution. Laurie E. Forbes, chair of the VWAA legislative committee, indicated that the constitutional amendment would ...

Two rural Virginia counties saw record verdicts last month. A Nottoway County jury awarded $300,000 for a family’s mental anguish due to the mishandling of a family member’s body, and an Isle of Wight jury returned a verdict of $1.25 ...

New general district judges will be seated in Henrico and two courts in the Shenandoah Valley region if legislators approve recommendations made by the Committee on District Courts at its Dec. 14 meeting. Specifically, a new judgeship was recommended for ...