Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

A husband who did not timely perfect an appeal of a final divorce decree cannot now challenge the court’s equitable distribution or appointment of a special commissioner to sell marital property, and the Court of Appeals affirms the trial court ...

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

A mother and father cannot overturn termination of their parental rights to their two children due to their histories of drug abuse, domestic violence and neglect and abuse leading to termination of parental rights to these two children’s five siblings; ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds termination of parental rights for a mother who refused to protect her seven-year-old daughter from continued sexual abuse by the mother’s boyfriend and who fled to Texas with her daughters and failed to give her ...

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

A husband who says wife failed to disclose certain debts cannot overturn their post-nuptial agreement, incorporated into their final divorce decree in 2008; the Court of Appeals upholds the decision sustaining wife’s plea in bar to the husband’s 2012 complaint ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals summarily affirms a trial court order denying appellant’s motions and quashing her subpoenas based on Rule 1:1; since the circuit court entered the final divorce decree 13 years earlier, the court did not err in denying ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms termination of a mother’s parental rights to four of her children because the mother was unable over a period of nearly three years to remedy her housing and employment situations and improve her ability to ...

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Testimony from a social worker and from the guardian ad litem, as an officer of the court, indicated mother’s two children who were over age 14 consented to termination of the mother’s parental rights, and the Court of Appeals upholds ...

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A mother with a history of incarceration and substance abuse but who has been steadily employed, passed her drugs screens and anticipates release from probation will get another chance to petition for visitation with her child, who is being reared ...

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The inconvenience and embarrassment suffered by a child’s father is not sufficient to support his petition under Va. Code § 8.01-217 to change the child’s surname from the mother’s maiden surname to the father’s surname, and the Supreme Court of ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Justice Cleo E. Powell Supreme Court of Virginia

The Court of Appeals upholds termination of parental rights for a mother who was convicted of domestic violence and was hospitalized for a heroin overdose and was at “extremely high” risk for relapse. Mother was ordered to attend parenting classes, ...

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