Even though there was no evidence to counter husband’s de bene esse deposition testimony that no marital funds were used to purchase a condominium, the court was free to reject husband’s evidence and classify the condo as marital property. Further, ...

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

Where the minor child’s mother extended the child’s stay in Bulgaria for months after the parties’ agreement, the court correctly decided that she could have only supervised visitation until she gave the child’s passport to the court. Background The initial ...

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

Where the trial court awarded appellees sole custody of a minor child, the court lacked jurisdiction to hear appellants’ appeal after the child’s 18th birthday. Background A juvenile and domestic relations district court order, dated Sept. 20, 2018, awarded appellees ...

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

Where husband drafted an amended domestic relations order for the court’s approval but incorrectly named the administrator of his pension plan, the court’s jurisdiction to amend the order extended past the 21-day finality period in Rule 1:1. Amending the final ...

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

Where the parties’ support agreement provided that husband’s payments could be lowered if he had reduced income, the trial court properly construed the agreement as permitting consideration of wife’s financial circumstances when ordering reduced support. Wife’s circumstances “Wife argues that ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Richard S. Wallerstein Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Independent contractors may be subject to all child support withholding obligations by July 1. Senate Bill 429, introduced by Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, would close an apparent loophole in the payment of child support. The measure clarifies that “income earned ...

Tagged with: Child Support Domestic Relations General Assembly

A homeowner’s insurance company paid its limits of $2.5 million to settle claims that a former professional football player severely injured his physician girlfriend in a 2015 domestic assault, the victim’s lawyers reported. The civil settlement was hammered out as ...

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Although the newlywed parties had not consummated their marriage and one spouse was pursuing gender transition, the other spouse – who hoped for children – was not entitled to an annulment under Virginia law, a Fairfax Circuit judge has ruled. ...

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

A former Chesterfield County lawyer was sentenced to more than a year in prison for forging a public document after he admitted giving his client a phony divorce decree. The fake court order caused trouble and expense for both the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Lawyer Discipline

Divorce cases often expose family secrets that both sides would prefer to keep out of the public eye. Allegations of infidelity, cruelty or neglect are just the most obvious. There are children’s names, friends’ names and sordid details about the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge David A. Oblon