The circuit court did not err in modifying a husband’s spousal support obligation from about $7,800 to $4,800 based on his ability to pay, but it also properly declined to make the modification retroactive. Background Husband and Wife married in ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Rudolph Bumgardner III Virginia Court of Appeals

The trial court erred in holding a father in contempt for failing to notify the mother of their child of the date of their son’s first communion. Background Father and Mother, who separated in 2008, are subject to a final ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals

Despite a support order entered in 2004, a husband didn’t owe arrearages dating to 2006. He’d stopped paying when the couple reconciled, resumed living together as husband and wife, and had two more children supported solely by the husband’s income. ...

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

A wife was entitled to enforce a marital agreement’s division of assets in the event of divorce. The evidence did not support her husband’s claim that she fraudulently induced him to sign the agreement by misrepresenting her intention to continue ...

Tagged with: Contract Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Michelle J. Atkins Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Even though a wife admitted that she committed pre-separation adultery, she is entitled to spousal support, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled. The relative economic circumstances and respective degrees of fault would make it a “manifest injustice” to deny ...

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

It was not arbitrary or capricious for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to reject special immigrant juvenile status for a Salvadoran girl on the basis of a state court order that lacked a factual basis for permanent custody with her ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Domestic Relations Immigration Per Curiam Opinion

The circuit court did not err in finding that, in light of both parties’ respective contributions to the breakdown of their marriage and the wife’s substantially lower economic prospects, an award of spousal support to her was warranted despite her ...

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

For spousal support purposes, the trial court did not err in declining to impute income to a spouse who retired voluntarily at age 58 and took up various volunteer activities. Background Husband and Wife were married in 1980 and separated ...

Tagged with: Attorneys Fees Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Randolph A. Beales Virginia Court of Appeals

Couples often split because they can’t work things out, but – when children are involved – the parties continue to be connected even after the relationship ends. Separation or divorce creates a whole new host of issues requiring cooperation and agreement between the parties. And, if ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law in Virginia Melissa VanZile

The circuit court’s equitable distribution and support determinations were not in error, and the wife didn’t proffer for the appellate record purported after-acquired evidence of additional property that could have merited reconsideration. Background The parties were married in 1999. Husband ...

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