Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

The trial court’s rulings and orders in connection with the parties’ final decree of divorce are, for the most part, affirmed. The court’s calculation of retroactive child support due from husband must be modified. The court considered spousal support, which ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Richard Y. AtLee Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Where wife did not comply with the court’s scheduling order, the court correctly granted husband’s motion in limine to preclude her from presenting any evidence at the divorce trial. Prior proceedings After a three-year separation, husband filed for divorce. Wife, ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge James W. Haley Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the parties’ property settlement agreement provided that husband’s support payments to wife would end if she remarried, she must reimburse husband for support payments he made after she remarried, up until the time she attempted to notify him by ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Randolph A. Beales Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the parties’ divorce settlement provided that wife was entitled to a fractional share of husband’s 10-year retirement plan, the fractional share applies to additional amounts husband accrued when he worked three years past the retirement date contemplated in the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Randolph A. Beales Virginia Court of Appeals

Where husband sent wife a signed property settlement agreement and wife agreed to sign it if husband signed an addendum that contained additional terms, this was a rejection of husband’s offer. Wife’s later acceptance of the original offer did not ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Robert J. Smith Virginia Circuit Courts

Where the court entered a final order regarding custody, visitation and support after finding that father “continued ‘to scuttle the process,’” of the court’s efforts to repair father’s relationship with the parties’ children, the court correctly denied father’s motion filed ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge James W. Haley Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Petitioners have established by clear and convincing evidence that the decedent intended an unwitnessed  document handwritten by another but signed by the decedent to constitute her will. Background About a month before she died, Watkins, the decedent, signed a document ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge H. Thomas Padrick Jr. Virginia Beach Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts Wills & Trusts

Where the circuit court offset the equitable distribution monetary award to husband against wife’s spousal support award, based on the court’s assumption that wife would otherwise be due 14 years of support, this had the effect of impermissibly conditioning the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals

Where wife was presented with a property settlement agreement and accepted it without objection, the trial court properly incorporated it into the final decree of divorce. Agreement “[W]e impute to wife an intention corresponding to the reasonable meaning of her ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the parties’ premarital agreement did not address the payment of marital debt during the marriage or up to the time of a divorce, wife cannot rely upon the agreement to insist that husband reimburse her for half of the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals