A grandmother who violated child protective orders by allowing the parents to vacation with the children, and who, in the opinion of an evaluator, overestimated her ability to meet the demands of the growing children, was not a candidate for ...

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

Where the original amount of child and spousal support agreed to by the parties and included in the divorce decree exceeded the husband’s current total income, and there was no finding that the husband was voluntarily underemployed, the change in ...

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

Where a couple’s separation agreement provided that the husband was responsible for procuring and maintaining a specific medical coverage plan for the wife because the parties mistakenly believed that the wife would be eligible for coverage under that plan, the ...

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

Where a husband and wife both sought a decree of divorce and the husband was given ample opportunity to proffer evidence in the divorce hearing and submit his owned proposed decree of divorce, the court was not required to delay ...

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

Where a wife’s counsel withdrew prior to an equitable distribution hearing and the wife was given 11 months to retain new counsel before such hearing was held, the denial of her request for additional discovery, made more than six months ...

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

Where a property settlement agreement provided that the wife was entitled to one-half of the monthly disability and retirement benefits her husband was receiving, and the amount of the husband’s monthly benefit increased after the divorce became final, the wife ...

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

Where a marital separation agreement provided that a defaulting party was responsible for any costs, including but not limited to attorneys’ fees that the prevailing incurred in enforcing the provisions of the agreement, the court did not have discretion to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals

Where a husband was employed by the military when he got married and had not yet retired at the time of his divorce, his wife was entitled to an equitable distribution of 50% of the marital share of the husband’s ...

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

An individual who voluntarily acknowledged the paternity of a child and helped raise the child could not be awarded visitation and joint legal custody based on his status as a parent because subsequent genetic testing revealed that another man was ...

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

Where an individual affirmed that he was the natural parent of a child on the child’s birth certificate despite knowing at the time that another man may have been the child’s biological father, and genetic testing later conclusively established that ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Mary B. Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals