Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

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

A Norfolk Circuit Court grants a father’s motion for Virginia to assume jurisdiction to hear child custody matters in this litigation in which the children lived in Virginia within six months before the father filed for divorce in Virginia, after ...

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

Although husband was laid off from his job paying over $170,000 per year, he submitted only two job applications prior to applying for social security disability due to chronic pain, and wife’s video surveillance evidence contradicted husband’s assertion of disability; ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

A Clarke County Circuit Court enters a pendente lite order granting primary physical custody of the parties’ three children to father, with visitation by mother, and orders father to pay $6,000 monthly on mother’s credit cards, as spousal support, $9,000 ...

Tagged with: Clarke County Circuit Court Domestic Relations Judge Ronald L. Napier Virginia Circuit Courts

Although mother complained that the children spent significant time with the father’s paramour, the Court of Appeals upholds the trial court’s award of legal and primary physical custody to the father, in light of testimony by a therapist and third ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals summarily affirms a circuit court order striking a mother and stepfather’s petition to adopt appellee’s biological son; the record does not contain a timely filed transcript of the court hearing necessary for resolution of the appeal. ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

A husband who filed for divorce in Fairfax County Circuit Court and a wife who initiated parallel proceedings in Nepal both agreed to be bound by the Nepali court’s division of property, and the Court of Appeals upholds the trial ...

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

As husband’s only evidence related to wife’s military retirement pay was his testimony that he thought the wife had served “about 23 years” in the U.S. Coast Guard, husband did not offer sufficient evidence about wife’s military retirement pay to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals