The Court of Appeals says a divorce court erred by incorporating a contested separation agreement – one that was lat­er found to be unenforceable at the time it was incorporated into a pendente lite order – without first resolving the ...

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

A trial court erred in awarding $249,000 of marital debt to husband based on fac­tors that included wife’s interest in hus­band’s business, although the trial court said no evidence was presented on the value of the business assets and it ...

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

A divorce court could incorporate a por­tion of a couple’s property settlement agree­ment into their final divorce decree, and it did not abuse its discretion in not incor­porating the start date of husband’s child support payments in light of his ...

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

The Court of Appeals affirms a circuit court order modifying an Ohio visitation order that awarded visitation with a moth­er’s four minor children to the children’s paternal grandparent; the circuit court did not err when it applied the material change ...

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

A mother who tried to cut off her children’s court-ordered visita­tion with their grandparents af­ter moving from Ohio to Virginia has lost her appeal to modify the Ohio order in Virginia courts. The mother argued that the Virginia trial court ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals holds that the circuit court erred in dismissing appel­lant’s case, as her petition for visitation relating to appellee’s two children should have been resolved on the merits during a trial that already had been scheduled, rather ...

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

Although the trial court denied the mother’s request to move with the three children from Fairfax County to Califor­nia where she had family and planned to attend graduate school, the court did not err in subsequently approving her move 64 ...

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

In these three consolidated appeals of a couple married in 2001 and divorced in 2015 on grounds of wife’s adultery with her personal trainer, the trial court’s rul­ings are affirmed, except that this court reverses the classification of husband’s First ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Glen A. Huff Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals upholds termi­nation of a mother and father’s parental rights to two of their four young children, due to their inability to remedy issues concerning substance abuse, domestic vi­olence, inadequate shelter and parenting and supervisory skills. Mother ...

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

The Court of Appeals affirms a circuit court order dismissing father’s appeal re­garding a foster care plan for his teenage daughter, whom he had abused and who preferred permanent foster care instead of adoption; father, who was in prison for ...

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