The Court of Appeals affirms termination of a father’s parental rights to his four children, who were placed in foster care after he struck one child in the face, causing significant injury, and the other children provided numerous allegations of ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Teresa M. Chafin Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

A mother cannot overturn termination of her parental rights to her four children, whom she physically abused, by arguing the trial court should have dismissed as defective and void certain pleadings signed by non-attorney employees of the local services department; ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Randolph A. Beales Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

A husband has failed to prove the trial court abused its discretion in dividing a couple’s marital property or in granting a divorce on the ground of continuous separation of more than one year, and the approbate-reprobate doctrine bars the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge William G. Petty Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

In this divorce action in which the physician parents stipulated that father, who was under supervision because of a prescription drug addiction, would report to mother if he relapsed in his treatment program, the Court of Appeals upholds the trial ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Robert J. Humphreys Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals upholds a $12,000 monthly spousal support award to a 57-year-old stay-at-home wife, rejecting husband’s argument that wife could generate sufficient income from her equitable distribution award and did not need spousal support; wife’s awards of over ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Marla Graff Decker Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

Although the parties have significant joint assets, there appear to be no liquid joint assets that allow husband to litigate this divorce, and the Norfolk Circuit Court orders wife to advance to husband one-half of a business valuation expert’s fee ...

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

Because the appellate record is incomplete, especially in not including guidelines worksheets,  the Court of Appeals affirms the judgment below and will not consider appellant’s claim that the trial court erred in its order governing payment of, and any credit ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

A wife did not have to live only on the millions she received in a property split when she and her husband divorced after 27 years of marriage, the Court of Appeals of Virginia has ruled. The appeals court affirmed ...

Tagged with: Alimony Christopher Habenicht Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

In the breakup of a cash-poor but land-rich couple, a Norfolk judge has ordered the wife to advance legal expenses for the husband, with a right of reimbursement on final divorce. Norfolk Circuit Judge David W. Lannetti took the unusual ...

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

A three-year family fight over owner­ship of a matri­arch’s home in the Rich­mond suburbs may be starting over now that the Supreme Court of Virginia has ordered a new trial. The court reversed a Henrico County judge’s decision to ex­clude ...

Tagged with: Beverly Gelber Domestic Relations Gregory D. Foreman Henrico County Circuit Court Judge Gary Hicks Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan Meryl Glock Supreme Court of Virginia