Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

The circuit court did not err in classifying only 30 percent of a litigation-support company’s increase in value during the course of an owner’s marriage as marital property. The court considered evidence as to whether the increase was due to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Marla Graff Decker Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

Twin baby girls who, at about four months old, were found to have bone fractures and subdural hematomas indicative of abuse, could not be returned to their parents’ care when the parents were not forthcoming about how the abuse might ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Mary B. Malveaux Parental Rights Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

For equitable-distribution purposes, the circuit court erred in failing to determine the amount of a husband’s student loans as of the date he and his wife separated. Under the circumstances, it was within its authority to re-open evidence on that ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Marla Graff Decker Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

The circuit court did not err in concluding that a 12-year-old girl who had been fostered for two years by the same family, along with her siblings, should not be placed instead with her incarcerated father’s mother. The father’s family ...

Tagged with: Parental Rights Per Curiam Opinion Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

Despite significant compliance with social services requirements to reunite with her five living children, a mother had not substantially remedied the conditions that required them to be placed in foster care. She had not seen the children since they were ...

Tagged with: Family Law Parental Rights Per Curiam Opinion Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

A couple who got a license to marry in Virginia but held their ceremony in Washington, D.C. was not legally married, despite living together as husband and wife for nine years. Their one-night hotel stay in D.C. after the ceremony ...

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

If facts could be gleaned from the existing record, a father seeking to modify support obligations wasn’t necessarily required to put on evidence of his children’s current needs, since the Child Support Guidelines include a rebuttable presumption of such needs. ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Evidence Fairfax County Circuit Court Family Law Judge David Bernhard Virginia Circuit Courts

The circuit court did not err in not continuing a hearing to terminate a father’s parental rights while he was incarcerated; nor did it err in determining that termination was in the child’s best interests. The father had minimal contacts ...

Tagged with: Judge Teresa M. Chafin Parental Rights Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

After a divorced couple’s former residence was significantly damaged by fire, the husband was entitled to reimbursements from the wife for his outlays to return to property to saleable condition. The trial court did not err in decreasing the wife’s ...

Tagged with: Contract Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals

The circuit court did not err in modifying a husband’s spousal support obligation from about $7,800 to $4,800 based on his ability to pay, but it also properly declined to make the modification retroactive. Background Husband and Wife married in ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Rudolph Bumgardner III Virginia Court of Appeals