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The Court of Appeals affirms termination of a mother’s parental rights to her 11 children, based on the mother’s physical abuse of the children and inability to recall that the children were removed from her care when her oldest child ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds termination of parental rights for a teenage mother whose child was placed in foster care when the mother repeatedly told the putative father, also a minor, that she planned to kill the baby and herself. ...

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Although a father argues he was not responsible for the conditions that led to placement of his child in foster care, he acknowledged that he had been incarcerated for most of the child’s life and the Court of Appeals upholds ...

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In this dispute over custody of a child born in Switzerland and brought by its mother to the U.S. for medical treatment during pending custody litigation in Switzerland, the mother’s claim that the Swiss judge retroactively acquired jurisdiction for its ...

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Although husband had asked wife to keep his checkbook and pay his bills during their five-year separation when he was deployed overseas, and husband deceived wife about the nature of the document he asked her to sign when she invited ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms termination of a father’s parental rights to his infant son who had been born prematurely. Despite repeated efforts by social service agencies, father had a long history of neglect and abuse with his older children, ...

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Although mother contends the court failed to give appropriate weight to the substantial progress mother made in remedying the conditions that led to removal of her children, the Court of Appeals upholds termination of parental rights for a mother who ...

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A father’s gross income for child support calculation should include “phantom income” he received as part of a $900,000 retention bonus, provided by employer in 2007 as a loan that is forgiven in one-ninth increments annually, a Fairfax Circuit Court ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds termination of father’s parental rights to a child who suffered from medical neglect after being born prematurely at 29 weeks, as the father showed little to no ability to respond to the child’s needs. The ...

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Although appellant is incarcerated, the circuit court did not err in failing to appoint a guardian ad litem for him, as he was not a defendant in this child support action but filed the action for a reduction in his ...

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