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A bank vice president who lost his job through a restructuring and who is on unemployment has his child support payments for the couple’s autistic child reduced from $1,664 per month to $1,373.84 per month by the Fairfax Circuit Court, ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Jonathan C. Thacher Virginia Circuit Courts

The Court of Appeals says the trial court did not err in finding clear and convincing evidence that father could not substantially remedy the conditions that led to placement of his four children in foster care, and that it was ...

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

The Court of Appeals affirms termination of a mother’s parental rights to her son pursuant to Va. Code §§ 16.1-283(B) and 16.1-283(C)(2), despite her challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence that termination was in the children’s best interests. Appellant’s ...

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

A mother who continued to state her three-year-old son broke his leg falling off the couch even after her boyfriend was convicted of felony child neglect in connection with the incident, and who could not provide a stable environment for ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals says a trial court did not err in terminating father’s parental rights and finding that he was withholding consent to his son’s adoption by his grandparents, who have cared for the child since he was one ...

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

A divorce court did not err in rejecting husband’s assertion that his law firm interest was only $20,000, the amount of his payout if he left the firm, and accepting wife’s valuation of husband’s interest at $308,439, and the Court ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Walter S. Felton Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Although husband says the trial court failed to account for the fact that he gave up his career and home country of Spain when he married wife and moved to the U.S. for her career advancement, the Court of Appeals ...

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

Although husband claims only $26,000 in marital funds went to develop a townhouse development worth more than $4 million when ultimately developed two years after the parties separated, the Court of Appeals says the trial court did not err in ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Stephen R. McCullough Virginia Court of Appeals

It might lead to a “Dickensian result,” but a Fairfax Circuit Court cannot reduce husband’s $1,000 monthly spousal support payment after his annual income dropped from $125,000 to $25,000; husband did not show up at the hearing on the final ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge R. Terrence Ney Virginia Circuit Courts

A father failed to remedy the abuse and neglect that led to his children’s foster care placement, and the Court of Appeals affirms an order terminating the father’s parental rights. Although father focuses much of his argument on his financial ...

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