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In a case originating in juvenile and domestic relations district part, the court held that a party may not appeal a procedural aspect of a substantive ruling, in this case the amount of an appeal bond, without appealing the underlying ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David A. Oblon Virginia Circuit Courts

The circuit court did not err in concluding that the entirety of the record, which included evidence and testimony that the father failed to comply with the Department of Social Services’ requirements and his own deficiencies, supported terminating his parental ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

At the conclusion of all the evidence, the circuit court held the mother’s parental rights should be terminated pursuant to several provisions of the Virginia Code. On appeal, the mother challenged some, but not all, of the reasons why the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

In terminating a father’s parental rights, the circuit court did not err in finding that relative placement with the father’s mother would be detrimental to the child due to the possibility that she would permit the father to live with ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert J. Humphreys Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

Because a mother first raised the fact of a positive drug test on her sentencing date in a different matter, and because her children had been in foster care for nearly a year and a half, the circuit court did ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert J. Humphreys Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

After he was granted sole legal and physical custody of his child, an order granting a father’s petition for child support effectively terminated a previous order setting forth the father’s child support obligations. The old order had been entered when ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Charles E. Poston Virginia Court of Appeals

A mother’s opening brief lacked sufficient principles of law and legal authorities to merit review of the circuit court’s order finding a risk of abuse or neglect and approving the goal of adoption for her child. Background Mother and Father, ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Family Law Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

Based on expert testimony that a father of eight is unable to parent independently, that his rights as to the elder seven have been terminated, and that his youngest is doing well in foster care, the circuit court did not ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

The circuit court did not err in its handling of the parties’ divorce, notwithstanding the husband’s 18 assignments of error on appeal. In particular, evidence supported both the court’s jurisdiction over the parties despite their long trips abroad and the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals

The trial court correctly held that, absent some reason why its order articulating a fixed pension annuity could not be enforced, it lacked jurisdiction to amend that order – even if the fixed amount therein didn’t match the percentage share ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Domestic Relations Family Law Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals