Although the circuit court’s order requires father to pay child support, it failed to include provisions related to health care coverage and unreimbursed medical expenses, as required by Va. Code § 20-60.3, and the Court of Ap­peals reverses the order ...

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

The Court of Appeals says a circuit court erred in entering a “Consent Or­der” regarding custody and visitation presented by the guardian ad litem, which mother had not signed and which she timely challenged in an appeal from the JDR ...

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

Although an expert in pediatric emer­gency medicine and child abuse initially testified that, based on hospital records, a second child of mother’s also suffered from genital herpes, the expert later tes­tified in the circuit court that testing at the expert’s ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

In this dispute over custody of the par­ties’ 10-year-old daughter, the Court of Appeals upholds the order for joint legal custody and primary physical custody to mother, but reverses a trial court order that the parents should follow the rec­mmendations ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Richard Y. AtLee Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals says a divorce court erred by incorporating a contested separation agreement – one that was lat­er found to be unenforceable at the time it was incorporated into a pendente lite order – without first resolving the ...

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

A trial court erred in awarding $249,000 of marital debt to husband based on fac­tors that included wife’s interest in hus­band’s business, although the trial court said no evidence was presented on the value of the business assets and it ...

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

A divorce court could incorporate a por­tion of a couple’s property settlement agree­ment into their final divorce decree, and it did not abuse its discretion in not incor­porating the start date of husband’s child support payments in light of his ...

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

The Court of Appeals affirms a circuit court order modifying an Ohio visitation order that awarded visitation with a moth­er’s four minor children to the children’s paternal grandparent; the circuit court did not err when it applied the material change ...

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

A mother who tried to cut off her children’s court-ordered visita­tion with their grandparents af­ter moving from Ohio to Virginia has lost her appeal to modify the Ohio order in Virginia courts. The mother argued that the Virginia trial court ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals holds that the circuit court erred in dismissing appel­lant’s case, as her petition for visitation relating to appellee’s two children should have been resolved on the merits during a trial that already had been scheduled, rather ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals