In this divorce action, the trial court correctly ruled it could receive counsels’ stipulations as to property value but erred in part regarding determinations that certain real estate was husband’s separate property. The court also erred it classifying husband’s purchase ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Va. Court of Appeals – Unpublished

Even though a couple married and lived together as husband and wife for 18 years, the wife cannot collect on her deceased husband’s nearly $722,000 pension because – unbeknownst to her – the husband had never divorced his previous wife. ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to grant either party a divorce because both held a G-4 nonimmigrant visa, which does not indicate “an intent to indefinitely be a resident and domiciliary of Virginia subject to divorce jurisdiction. Competing complaints ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David A. Oblon Virginia Circuit Courts

Where the issue of attorney’s fees related to custody, visitation and child support were bifurcated from the underlying divorce matter, the court concludes that wife is entitled to an attorney’s fee. However, the court will apply a 30 percent reduction ...

Tagged with: 24th Circuit Court Domestic Relations Judge Jeanette A. Irby Virginia Circuit Courts

The trial court correctly included a nanny’s full salary as a child-care cost when calculating child support guidelines. Wife’s requested child-care costs were employment-related and reasonable. Overview The parties married in 2000 and separated in 2018. They have three minor ...

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

A Reston lawyer has been sidelined from representing a husband in a contentious and complicated Loudoun County divorce action because of his prior representation of a former friend of the husband. The husband accused the former friend of having an ...

Tagged with: Divorce Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Jeanette A. Irby Loudon County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The trial court properly concluded “that husband’s pattern of behavior, culminating in the battery for which he was convicted, would ‘cause [a] reasonable apprehension of serious danger in the future’ or would be ‘likely to be repeated.’ … Therefore, the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge William G. Petty 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

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

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