Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

Where husband argued that reaching his mandatory retirement age was a changed circumstance that warranted a reduction in wife’s spousal support, the circuit court properly denied the motion. Although his income was reduced, he still had the ability to pay ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

The circuit court properly  awarded spousal support to wife for an undefined duration circuit after their 10-month marriage ended. Overview The parties married in May 2016 and separated in March 2017, a few days after their son was born. Wife ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals

Even though the trial court erred by granting the mother’s motion to strike at the end of the Lynchburg Department of Social Services’ case-in-chief in this child abuse and neglect matter, the error was harmless because the court would have ...

Tagged with: Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

The trial court correctly ruled that husband’s postseparation employment earnings were transmuted into marital property and properly classified a trading account as marital property. Background The parties were married in 2000. They separated and reconciled several times. The last separation ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Appellant’s complaint for an annulment was properly dismissed on appellee’s motion to strike because appellant did not corroborate her claim that at the time of the parties’ marriage, appellant was still married to his first wife. Facts Arebalo, the appellant, ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the trial court’s pendente lite order awarded wife control of a partnership owned by her and husband, a writ of prohibition does not lie in the Court of Appeals to prevent the trial court from enforcing the order. Prior ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

Where husband received an inheritance and wrote checks to wife, which she deposited into her own account, the inheritance became marital property. Further, handwritten documents husband submitted do not reflect a contractual agreement that husband gave wife money in exchange ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals

Appellant’s accounting business, which he started shortly after the parties were married, was correctly included in the marital estate. Further, the court correctly applied a statutory presumption that the valuation should be made based on the hearing date, rather than ...

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

Where husband argued that his contributions and personal efforts in relation to the marital home, which was gifted to wife from her father, required the court to classify the home as marital property, the court correctly ruled that it was ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the decedent’s will conveyed his farm property and home to his children, subject to his wife residing in the home and collecting cell tower rent until she was no longer “physically and mentally able” to reside in the home, ...

Tagged with: Justice Teresa M. Chafin Supreme Court of Virginia Wills & Trusts