Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

A husband’s promise not to divorce wife for 20 years was consideration for an enforceable post-nuptial contract, but the parties intend­ed the agreement to provide insurance cover­age for wife, whose health was deteriorating; the Court of Appeals upholds a trial ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals affirms termi­nation of mother’s parental rights to her three children, who were adjudicated abused or neglected after mother’s arrest for substance abuse. Contrary to mother’s complaints about lack of notice, when read together, the petitions, summonses ...

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

The Court of Appeals upholds termina­tion of parental rights for a mother whose ongoing substance abuse caused her to be evicted from a homeless shelter and a de­tox program and to be incarcerated, and who was unable to remedy the ...

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

A husband who did not object to the circuit court’s ruling below cannot ar­gue for the first time on appeal that the divorce court erred in imputing in­come to him after he retired from the Navy and took a part-time ...

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

A father who joined mother’s petition to be declared co-guardians for their adult son, who is developmentally dis­abled and mentally impaired, is not en­titled to have the son psychologically evaluated during the couple’s divorce proceedings; the Court of Appeals up­holds ...

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

The Court of Appeals upholds termina­tion of a mother’s parental rights based on the mother’s history of substance abuse and mental health problems. Mother was diagnosed with ADHD and borderline personality disorder. The re­sults of personality assessment were posi­tive for ...

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

Because mother’s testimony was not credible concerning issues related to removal of her 3-year-old child from Mexico by respondent, who was not his biological father but listed as his father on the child’s birth certificate, the Dan­ville U.S. District Court ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District

A circuit court did not err in dividing the marital share of husband’s military pension 55-45 in husband’s favor, in light of appointment of a conservator for hus­band due to his incapacity from a brain aneurysm suffered shortly after divorce ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Wesley G. Russell Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

A mother cannot appeal adjudicatory orders that her three children were with­out parental care or supervision due to their mother’s incarceration; the Court of Appeals says it lacks jurisdiction because the orders were not final orders. Here, it is clear ...

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

A divorce court did not err in finding that the “developmental changes” of his children and “closer relationship” cited by father in his motion to adjust custody and visitation were not proof of a materi­al change of circumstances, and the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Virginia Court of Appeals