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Where a child with Asperger’s Syndrome had lived with the maternal grandparents for the majority of his life, and his mother was not able to care for him and his father was prohibited from having contact, it was in the ...

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

Where a wife asserted multiple challenges to the trial court’s order holding her in contempt for failure to make payments to her former husband, the circuit court possessed the jurisdiction to enforce its final order and issue further orders and ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Mary B. Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the evidence supported the trial court’s order holding the husband in contempt for failing to pay spousal support to his former wife, the order was affirmed. However, because there was no legal basis for awarding the wife attorneys’ fees, ...

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

Virginia Code §20-91(A)(9)(a), which allows a husband and wife to obtain a divorce if they live separate and apart without cohabitation and without interruption for one year, applies equally to same-sex married couples. In this case, a same-sex married couple ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Family Law Judge Stephen C. Shannon Virginia Circuit Courts

Although a guardian ad litem challenged the lower court’s dismissal of a case involving protective orders for three minor children before he could present evidence affecting the father’s attempts to gain custody, he did not raise the issue of mootness ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Mary B. Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

Although a guardian ad litem challenged the lower court’s dismissal of a case involving protective orders for three minor children before he could present evidence affecting the father’s attempts to gain custody, he did not raise the issue of mootness ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Mary B. Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

A wife was not entitled to a share of the increase in the value of her husband’s personal investment accounts and other stock that occurred in the marriage because the increase in value was not so substantial that it could ...

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

The court reaffirmed a prior decision holding veterans’ disability benefits are included in calculating child support. A 2017 decision from the United States Supreme Court, the court held, did not affect this holding because that decision did not involve the ...

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

A grandmother who violated child protective orders by allowing the parents to vacation with the children, and who, in the opinion of an evaluator, overestimated her ability to meet the demands of the growing children, was not a candidate for ...

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

Where the original amount of child and spousal support agreed to by the parties and included in the divorce decree exceeded the husband’s current total income, and there was no finding that the husband was voluntarily underemployed, the change in ...

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