Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

A trial court erred in penalizing wife for complying with a court’s pendente lite order to move out of a residence owned by husband, to which she had been granted a life estate under the parties’ premarital agreement; the Court ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Randolph A. Beales Virginia Court of Appeals

In awarding a wife who admitted to adultery a six-year reservation of spousal support, a divorce court erred by failing to make any particularized findings on the parties’ respective degrees of fault and relative economic circumstances, and the Court of ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Randolph A. Beales Virginia Court of Appeals

A circuit court did not err in holding that a husband’s obligations for payments “in lieu of” spousal support  terminated upon wife’s remarriage, the Court of Appeals holds. The meaning we glean from the language of the parties’ agreement and ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals reverses a divorce court’s decision and orders the trial court to determine the amount of credit card debt owed by wife in exchange for her receiving a Disney resort timeshare as her separate property. In the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals affirms termination of a mother’s parental rights due to her numerous mental and emotional disorders and intellectual disability. The child was removed by social services from the hospital shortly after his birth in January 2014. At ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals upholds a show cause order incarcerating husband until he pays wife’s $7,244.50 in attorney’s fees incurred after husband filed four motions to dissolve a protective order entered against husband. Assuming without deciding that the good cause ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

A man who donated sperm to a female friend who wanted to conceive a child, and who established his paternity through DNA testing, is entitled to visitation with the child; the Court of Appeal says Virginia’s assisted conception statute does ...

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

The Court of Appeals affirms termination of a mother’s parental rights due to her numerous mental and emotional disorders and intellectual disability. The child was removed by social services from the hospital shortly after his birth in January 2014. At ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

A divorce court erred in applying the federal Daubert test to exclude mother’s testimony from an audio expert that purported to identify pressure and pain in the voice of the couple’s child who made a 9-1-1 call while in father’s ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals

A father who alleges his wife wrongfully kept their two daughters in the U.S. where she is staying with a boyfriend instead of returning the daughters to El Salvador where the family lived and the daughters attended school has his ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District