A husband could not reopen his divorce case because of wife’s lie about her concealment of a painting during the 1999 divorce proceed­ings; the trial court did not err in finding that wife committed intrinsic fraud that was not a ...

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

A circuit court did not abuse its discretion in denying father’s motion for visitation and ordering that he have no contact with his daughter; the Court of Appeals says the evi­dence supported the trial court decision that visitation was not ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Per Curiam Opinion U.S. District Court - Western District

A stepmother cannot petition a court to dissolve her adoption of husband’s two daughters, on grounds that he had estranged the daughters from her; the Court of Appeals upholds the trial court’s dismissal of mother’s petitions. Mother filed her petitions ...

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

A Norfolk Circuit Court dismisses appeals of 18 of petitioning father’s 19 motions to show cause filed in the JDR court over a six-week period alleging matters such as a failure to give notice of doctors’ appointments, a failure to ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. Norfolk Circuit Court

A couple’s PSA and divorce decree giv­ing her a 50-percent share of husband’s federal pension applied to husband’s pension as reduced by deductions taken, including a survivorship benefit for his current spouse, not to the amount of his “self-only annuity,” ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court

A Norfolk Circuit Court says a single mother may deny visitation with her 11-year-old son to her own mother, who lives nearby and has a strong relation­ship with the child; although the JDR court granted expanded visitation, the court rejects ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court

Finding no error, the Court of Appeals upholds an award of primary physical custody to father and joint legal custody to both parents, who never married. The parties’ child was born with schi­zenepahly, a disease that affects her fine motor ...

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

A grandmother lost her expanded visitation with a grandson when the child’s mother – her own daughter – appealed the grandmother’s win. The grandmother, who lived a short walking distance from the mother’s house, complained that she was only allowed ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Hon. David Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court

The Court of Appeals affirms termi­nation of a mother’s parental rights to her two small children, who were found padlocked in a camper without adult su­pervision, electricity or running water. The circuit court agreed with the de­partment that mother’s conviction ...

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

The Court of Appeals affirms termina­tion of the parental rights of appellant mother, whose visitation rights with her son had to be terminated due to her “un­cooperative and bizarre behavior.” Mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder with psychotic features. Her ...

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