Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

The trial court correctly included expenses for the children’s occupational therapist in a $10,336 monthly child support award to wife. The court was not required to treat the contested expense as an unreimbursed medical expense that should have been excluded ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Glen A. Huff Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the parties have made multiple assignments of error regarding the court’s rulings on equitable distribution, valuation of property and calculating income for child support purposes, the trial court’s rulings are affirmed. Husband’s appeal Husband asserts the trial court’s apportionment ...

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

Even though an incarcerated mother did not have a guardian ad litem when she consented to have her parents adopt her child, the evidence does not support her argument that she was denied due process. The record shows that she ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals

The trial court correctly included expenses for the children’s occupational therapist in a $10,336 monthly child support award to wife. The court was not required to treat the contested expense as an unreimbursed medical expense that should have been excluded ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Glen A. Huff Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the parties’ amended property settlement agreement required husband to maintain wife as a 50% beneficiary of a life insurance policy, wife’s claim to the insurance proceeds is governed by equity principles rather than substantive law. Wife’s equitable claim is ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Supreme Court of Virginia

The court denies defendant’s motion for a declaratory judgment allowing him to buy out his ex-wife’s interest in the former marital home. Overview The parties’ marital settlement agreement, which was incorporated into the final divorce decree on Jan. 19, 2016, ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Jeanette A. Irby Loudoun County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The trial court correctly awarded mother sole physical and legal custody of the parties’ children but erred by ordering father to take steps to revoke the children’s Greek citizenship. Mother never requested that relief in her pleadings. Facts The parties ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Glen A. Huff Virginia Court of Appeals

Where wife challenges post-decree relief granted to husband on the basis that the trial court misinterpreted the parties’ property settlement agreement, her arguments cannot be considered on appeal because she did not timely appeal the final decree. Overview On Sept. ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Wesley G. Russell Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

An incarcerated husband remains liable for his spousal support obligation but is not in contempt of court for failing to pay as ordered in the final divorce decree. The court finds that husband’s spousal support arrearage is $489,239. Judgment is ...

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

A divorce decree entered by this court is unaffected by a California court’s divorce order that ended the marriage of plaintiff and his first spouse, even though the California order was entered after plaintiff married defendant but made nunc pro ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard Virginia Circuit Courts