Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

The Court of Appeals upholds a divorce obtained by a 93-year-old incapacitated husband from his 88-year-old wife, on evidence that husband formed an intent to live separate and apart in 2006; the trial court did not err in declining to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Robert P. Frank Virginia Court of Appeals

Although a father’s four children were not living with him at the time they were removed from their mother’s care due to her physical neglect of the children, who had special needs, the Court of Appeals upholds termination of the ...

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

Although a mother claimed the father was not interested in co-parenting with her in the joint custody and care of their child, because he would not communicate with her and intended to change the child to a school in Maryland, ...

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

A couple had a long history of working long hours to build up their carpet-cleaning business without ever maintaining separate business and personal accounts, and a Salem Circuit Court divides their marital property, with an additional monetary award to compensate ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Robert P. Doherty Jr. Salem Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A mother whose infant daughter suffered from periodic outbreaks of MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, and who was discovered to be disoriented and incapacitated from ingestion of prescription drugs and unable to care for the child, loses her appeal of ...

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

Although husband argued in the trial court that the guardian ad litem’s $29,403 fee was unreasonable, he did not raise as a ground the trial court’s failure to make findings and specifically address his objections to the bill, and the ...

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

The Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to hear wife’s appeal from the dismissal of her motion for judgment for past due spousal support, but affirms the trial court’s decision that her claim is barred by res judicata. The trial court ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Larry G. Elder Virginia Court of Appeals

Wife argues husband was unemployed without unemployment benefits when the final divorce decree was entered, just as he was when spousal support was ordered 15 months earlier, but the Court of Appeals affirms the trial court orders suspending support payments. ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Jere M.H. Willis Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals holds that a father has not properly preserved his claim that the trial court erred in announcing at the end of a hearing that father would have primary physical custody of the parties’ child and be ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals