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A Norfolk Circuit Court denies a non-Virginia resident wife’s motion to dis­miss husband’s divorce complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper ven­ue; Virginia law does not require the court to have personal jurisdiction over wife to grant husband an ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Although a Mexican mother and her two children are illegally in the U.S. after she brought them from Mexico in 2013, the 4th Circuit upholds a district court decision that the family’s illegal status does not under­mine the degree to ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Domestic Relations Judge Henry F. Floyd

The Court of Appeals upholds termi­nation of a father’s parental rights to his three-year-old daughter based on factors including father’s drug use and sale of drugs while the child was in the home. Following the child’s removal from his home, ...

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

The Court of Appeals upholds ter­mination of the parental rights for a mother who was unable to care for her children, and who had mood disorder and anxiety disorder, a history of alco­hol and marijuana abuse and who had been ...

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

The Court of Appeals upholds termi­nation of the parental rights of a father who had numerous substance abuse issues and theft and drug convictions, and who could not provide stable hous­ing or care and supervision of his child born in ...

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

The Supreme Court of Virginia affirms a Court of Appeals decision holding that defen­dant cannot overturn his conviction of taking indecent liberties with a child with claims of statutory and constitutional speedy trial vi­olations; the record showed that defendant delayed ...

Tagged with: Supreme Court of Virginia

A charitable organization, as intended beneficiary of a will, wins a $603,409.90 legal malpractice judgment against a lawyer who failed to draft a will conforming to the testa­tor’s wish to have her entire estate pass to the charitable organization; a ...

Tagged with: Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Supreme Court of Virginia Wills & Trusts

A Richmond U.S. District Court denies summary judgment to a decedent’s first wife and two children in a dispute with his second wife over who is the rightful beneficiary of decedent’s retirement savings plan proceeds of $372,056; the plan faces ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Court of Appeals upholds termi­nation of the parental rights of a moth­er whose infant was born with opiates in his system and who failed to consistently participate in substance abuse treatment or counseling and who relapsed on drugs several ...

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

A trial court did not err in finding that mother’s older child, who had multiple unexplained fractures, had been subject­ed to aggravated circumstances of abuse pursuant to Va. Code § 16.1-283(E)(iv) and in terminating mother’s parental rights to both her ...

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