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The Court of Appeals upholds termination of a mother’s parental rights based on her unwillingness or inability to remedy the conditions that led to foster care placement of her children, namely drug abuse. When the children entered foster care, the ...

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

Pursuant to this court’s Oct. 9, 2015 order, defendant was required to make certain scheduled payments to purge his contempt charge, as well as to pay plaintiff’s costs and reasonable attorney’s fees, and the Norfolk Circuit Court orders defendant to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The Court of Appeals affirms an order requiring husband to pay wife $18,283.76 in attorney’s fees and costs, and remands to the trial court for an award to wife of attorney’s fees on appeal. The circuit court clearly had subject ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge James W. Haley Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Although a couple’s three minor children said they wanted to live with their mother in Virginia, instead of with their father in Abu Dhabi, where he had moved them from Japan, the Court of Appeals upholds a trial court order ...

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

The Court of Appeals summarily affirms an order finding father in contempt for failure to pay child support with arrearages and in incarcerating father; father’s failure to comply with Rule 5A:20 is significant and the court will not consider his ...

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

A couple who was married by a rabbi without the benefit of a marriage license, which was obtained later and signed by the celebrant one month after the wedding ceremony, was not legally married; the Court of Appeals on rehearing ...

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

The Court of Appeals affirms a finding that father’s two young children, who had special needs and who were living in filthy and unsanitary conditions in a hotel room with their parents, were abused and neglected. The department offered into ...

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

A mother who could not obtain stable housing or employment, and who left her two small daughters alone for extended periods of time loses her parental rights in a decision upheld by the Court of Appeals. The record indicates the ...

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

The Court of Appeals upholds termination of a father’s parental rights to his three minor children, who were removed from the mother’s home after she was arrested on felony forgery charges. When the social services workers met with father, he ...

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 three children, who initially were removed from the home after mother’s arrest on felony forgery charges and child protective services workers found deplorable conditions, a firearm in ...

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