A mother loses her parental rights to her teenage child who was reported to protective services based on severe underweight, stunted growth and rotten teeth, in a decision upheld by the Court of Appeals. Mother told the social worker the ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms termination of a mother’s parental rights to her two young children removed from her care after the mother attempted suicide by taking an overdose of pills in their presence while they were living in a ...

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A veteran lawyer who persisted with appellate arguments that had already been rejected by the courts has agreed to a reprimand from the Virginia State Bar. The public reprimand without terms is the first disciplinary blemish on the 34-year record ...

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A father who failed to meet the condition of testing negative for medication not prescribed to him, as he consistently tested positive for benzodiazepines, and who later was sentenced to prison for malicious wounding, loses his parental rights in a ...

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The Court of Appeals summarily upholds termination of father’s parental rights; In addition to father’s incarceration, the department presented evidence about father’s criminal history, including two counts of carnal knowledge of a child. Prior to his incarceration in 2014, the ...

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A father who was incarcerated in Florida when he was contacted about his child born three years earlier, and who initially did not respond to social workers’ efforts to contact him after the child’s mother consented to termination of her ...

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A trial court erred in not considering the recent past earnings of a father who was incarcerated in imputing income, and the Court of Appeals reverses a child support award and remands for reconsideration; the father’s unemployment did not result ...

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A mother whose salary went from $170,000 to $108,000 when she changed jobs did not have income imputed to her, in a case upheld by the Virginia Court of Appeals on Dec. 8. In its new decision in Murphy v. ...

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Although wife trained and worked as a physician, she suffered an accident in her youth that has resulted in increased disability at this stage in her life, and the Charlottesville Circuit Court orders her physician husband to pay her monthly ...

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A marital agreement was not “unconscionable” even though it gave wife the marital home but made husband fully responsible for all costs and debts associated with the home and two other parcels of real estate, gave wife half of husband’s ...

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