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A wife was in contempt of a couple’s property settlement agreement to each “retain” two of the four children’s § 529 college savings accounts, when she liquidated one account for over $80,000 and withdrew $10,000 from the second account; the ...

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

A trial court did not err in terminating mother’s parental rights to two children and in approving a goal of permanent placement with relatives for two of her other children, the Court of Appeals holds. Mother has eight children, six ...

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

The Court of Appeals upholds termination of a mother’s parental rights to her older child, based on her inability to provide sanitary living conditions for her child and herself or to maintain housing and employment, despite intensive assistance from the ...

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

A defendant’s conviction for violating a protective order is affirmed; the juvenile and domestic relations court order extending the preliminary P.O. so defendant could obtain counsel was proper under Va. Code § 16.1-253.2, the Court of Appeals says. Defendant contends ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Teresa M. Chafin Virginia Court of Appeals

A mother who did not appeal termination of her parental rights to her two older daughters, one of whom was raped by the father, also has her parental rights to her two younger daughters terminated; the Court of Appeals upholds ...

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

The Court of Appeals says a Virginia’s statute’s requirement that a circuit court hold a hearing in an appeal of a parental rights termination case in 90 days is “procedural, not mandatory,” and the father did not object to a ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Glen A. Huff Virginia Court of Appeals

A woman who broke off an engagement is ordered to return the engagement ring, valued at $46,646 to her former fiancé; the Loudoun County Circuit Court says the majority view in Virginia is that requiring return of a conditional gift ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Thomas D. Horne Loudoun County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Based on testimony from a mother that the father consented to their two children returning to the mother’s native Germany, a North Carolina federal district court did not err in according comity to a German appellate court’s decision, and in ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Domestic Relations Judge Allyson K. Duncan

The Virginia Supreme Court affirms an order of the Court of Appeals that vacated termination of parental rights of a father and mother and reversed a trial court denial of a motion to transfer this case involving two children to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Supreme Court of Virginia

Although husband argues he was entitled to termination of wife’s spousal support due to wife’s change of job and lower cost of living in Oklahoma, the Court of Appeals affirms a support reduction that keeps intact his monthly payment of ...

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