The trial court correctly ruled that wife became solely liable for mortgage payments on the former marital home on a date specified by the “clear and unambiguous” terms of the parties’ property settlement. Further, the court properly ordered wife to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Glen A. Huff Va. Court of Appeals – Unpublished

Where wife’s income and expense worksheet “exaggerates her need for financial support,” the court will modify its previously issued pendente lite spousal support award. Prior proceedings The parties were married in August 2014. They have no children but wife has ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge James P. Fisher Loudoun County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Where the trial court denied husband’s motion to allow late responsive pleadings to wife’s divorce complaint, the issue cannot be reviewed because husband did not provide a complete record for his appeal. Further, the trial court correctly awarded husband a ...

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

Where husband seeks to modify a pendente lite order concerning his child support obligation, the fact that the children are now emancipated does not bar modification. A pendente lite order may be modified at any time while the divorce action ...

Tagged with: 20th Circuit Court Domestic Relations Judge Jeanette A. Irby Virginia Circuit Courts

The parties’ postnuptial agreement was not abrogated by their separations and reconciliations. The circuit court erred by relying on Code § 20-155 to conclude otherwise because the postnuptial agreement was neither a separation agreement nor a property settlement agreement. Overview ...

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

The circuit court correctly ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to enter a final divorce decree nunc pro tunc after one of the parties died. Background Tommy and Greta Johnson married in 1974. Greta filed for divorce in 2017. After a ...

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

Husband was properly served with a rule to show cause why he should not be held in willful contempt for failing to comply with his financial obligations in the parties’ final divorce decree. The court properly sanctioned husband and awarded ...

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

A child whose mother refused to return her to Honduras following their visit to the United States and whose father petitioned for her return, will remain here. The father delayed in filing his petition, and the child is now well-settled. ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the parties’ property settlement made husband liable for all marital debts, his subsequent loan default and post-marriage refinancing by both husband and wife did not make wife responsible for half of the new loan. Overview During the parties’ marriage, ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals

Where appellant wife claims the trial court should have granted her a continuance and allowed her to introduce evidence concerning equitable distribution and determination of assets and debts, her acceptance of a settlement agreement that was incorporated into the divorce ...

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