Where the trial court’s pendente lite order awarded wife control of a partnership owned by her and husband, a writ of prohibition does not lie in the Court of Appeals to prevent the trial court from enforcing the order. Prior ...

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Where husband received an inheritance and wrote checks to wife, which she deposited into her own account, the inheritance became marital property. Further, handwritten documents husband submitted do not reflect a contractual agreement that husband gave wife money in exchange ...

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

Appellant’s accounting business, which he started shortly after the parties were married, was correctly included in the marital estate. Further, the court correctly applied a statutory presumption that the valuation should be made based on the hearing date, rather than ...

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

Where husband argued that his contributions and personal efforts in relation to the marital home, which was gifted to wife from her father, required the court to classify the home as marital property, the court correctly ruled that it was ...

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Where this case was remanded to recalculate money due to appellant under an amended property settlement agreement, appellant’s failure to initially appeal the expert’s methodology made that methodology the law of the case. Appellant’s argument that the trial court must ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

The trial court’s rulings and orders in connection with the parties’ final decree of divorce are, for the most part, affirmed. The court’s calculation of retroactive child support due from husband must be modified. The court considered spousal support, which ...

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

Where wife did not comply with the court’s scheduling order, the court correctly granted husband’s motion in limine to preclude her from presenting any evidence at the divorce trial. Prior proceedings After a three-year separation, husband filed for divorce. Wife, ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge James W. Haley Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the parties’ property settlement agreement provided that husband’s support payments to wife would end if she remarried, she must reimburse husband for support payments he made after she remarried, up until the time she attempted to notify him by ...

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

Where the parties’ divorce settlement provided that wife was entitled to a fractional share of husband’s 10-year retirement plan, the fractional share applies to additional amounts husband accrued when he worked three years past the retirement date contemplated in the ...

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

Where husband sent wife a signed property settlement agreement and wife agreed to sign it if husband signed an addendum that contained additional terms, this was a rejection of husband’s offer. Wife’s later acceptance of the original offer did not ...

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