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Where a JDR court clerk erroneously told father’s counsel that the court’s final order had not been filed, the circuit court erred by treating the statement as a clerical mistake to extend the time in which father had to appeal ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Daniel E. Ortiz Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the bequests to certain beneficiaries were to be funded from the sale of the testator’s condominium, the sale of the condominium before the testator’s death adeemed the bequests. The Commissioner of Accounts erred by concluding otherwise. Her recommendation that ...

Tagged with: Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Richard E. Gardiner Virginia Circuit Courts Wills & Trusts

The trial court correctly imputed income to wife when deciding not to award her spousal support. The court properly determined husband’s income and awarded him the annual child tax credit in alternate years. Background After their 2015 marriage in India, ...

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

The record supports the trial court’s approval of  the adoption appellant’s child by the child’s maternal great-grandmother. Best interests Appellant Rorrer, the child’s biological father, was incarcerated on June 19, 2019, to serve a four-year sentence for distributing a controlled ...

Tagged with: Family Law Virginia Court of Appeals

Contrary to husband’s argument on appeal, the trial court considered his financial exhibits, along with other evidence, when awarding wife one-half of the marital equity in a residence husband owned before the marriage. The court’s division of this marital asset, ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

Where a husband appeals the trial court’s modification of a single paragraph in the parties’ voluntary support order, the trial court’s ruling is neither a final order nor an interlocutory order. As a result, his appeal is dismissed for lack ...

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

Where husband argues the trial court denied his motion to end spousal support without making written findings and conclusions, he waived this argument on appeal when the court stated it considered the statutory factors, offered to elaborate and counsel declined ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Virginia Court of Appeals

Where each party sought an order to have the other party pay attorney fees incurred in connection with father’s petition to show cause regarding mother’s failure to timely provide income information, to participate in a division of disputed person property ...

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

Where a father disclosed a sealed report to the children’s stepmother concerning a court-ordered independent psychological evaluation, the court erred by dismissing his de novo appeal of the J&RD court’s custody award to mother. Dismissal was an “unduly severe sanction” ...

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

The circuit court correctly determined appellant was not entitled to a statutory accounting from her brother relating to his management of their father’s financial affairs under a power of attorney. The power of attorney document specifically prohibited such accounting. Further, ...

Tagged with: Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Supreme Court of Virginia Wills & Trusts