The cost of raising children includes many ex­penses beyond the day-to-day, from summer camp tuition to medical bills to algebra tutors. But between divorcing parents, disputes over incidental costs that fall outside regular child support responsibilities can escalate quickly. An ...

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Hello, my name is Shon, and I am a recovering courtroom addict. I used to believe that all family law matters should be tried for their sins and litigated to the end of time. For the first 15 years of ...

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Family law attorneys have to know a little some­thing about a lot of things. From taxation and real estate, to social science and business val­uation, our desks are littered with a fruit salad of issues to address day to day. ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds termination of parental rights for a mother who has a history of substance abuse and violence and whose child has been placed in foster care four times and was the subject of eight child protective ...

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

The Court of Appeals upholds termina­tion of parental rights for a father who has a history of substance abuse and violence and whose child has been placed in foster care four times and was the subject of eight child protective ...

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

Husband’s procedural defaults pre­vent the Court of Appeals from consid­ering his assignments of error, including his claim that the trial court erred in finding that the evidence was insuffi­cient to establish adultery and in hold­ing wife’s alleged adultery did not ...

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

Although husband earned $850,000 annually and wife had not worked outside the home for more than a few months since 1990, denying spousal sup­port to wife, who admitted to adultery with multiple partners, would not be a “manifest injustice” under ...

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

The Virginia Court of Appeals has reversed, apparently for the first time, a spousal support award that was based on the “manifest injustice” exception in the Virginia Code. Virginia Code §20- 17.1(B) permits a trial judge to award spousal support ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds a trial court’s dismissal of a maternal grand­father’s petition for custody of his two grandsons, ages 11 and 15, and the court’s acceptance of a foster care plan for the children. When a background check ...

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

Although a Roanoke City Circuit Court ordered husband, who has been under guardianship of his mother and then his brother beginning in 1968, in 2001 to pay $250 in monthly spousal support after his 1993 Virginia divorce from wife and ...

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