Although wife’s income had increased from $36,000 to $80,000, husband’s income increased from $150,000 to $175,000, and the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it reduced his monthly spousal support payments by $400, instead of terminating the payments. ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds an order terminating a mother’s parental rights where she was unwilling or unable to obtain training in order to properly care for her premature infant’s extensive medical needs. The child, who was placed into foster ...

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Wife’s income had increased slightly, but husband’s income had increased more since his spousal support payment was set in 2008, and the Court of Appeals says the trial court did not err in finding no material change in circumstances warranting ...

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Although husband argues his income has decreased after his retirement and wife’s income has increased, the trial court could not modify husband’s $500 monthly spousal support payments to wife because he committed to the payments in an agreement that was ...

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Numerous failures to comply with procedural rules regarding wife’s brief and appendix prevent the Court of Appeals from reviewing on the merits her complaints about the grounds for divorce, equitable distribution and spousal support decisions by the trial court, and ...

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Wife’s counsel conceded that husband was entitled to a $9,000 credit on the couple’s $36,606 in marital credit card debt, and the trial court erred in not granting this credit to husband when it apportioned the debt after finding husband ...

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

A trial court erred in penalizing wife for complying with a court’s pendente lite order to move out of a residence owned by husband, to which she had been granted a life estate under the parties’ premarital agreement; the Court ...

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In awarding a wife who admitted to adultery a six-year reservation of spousal support, a divorce court erred by failing to make any particularized findings on the parties’ respective degrees of fault and relative economic circumstances, and the Court of ...

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A circuit court did not err in holding that a husband’s obligations for payments “in lieu of” spousal support  terminated upon wife’s remarriage, the Court of Appeals holds. The meaning we glean from the language of the parties’ agreement and ...

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

The Court of Appeals reverses a divorce court’s decision and orders the trial court to determine the amount of credit card debt owed by wife in exchange for her receiving a Disney resort timeshare as her separate property. In the ...

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