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

A husband does not have standing to appeal a circuit court decision granting his motion to reconsider and holding it did not have jurisdiction to consider the validity of the parties’ marital agreement because they had not been separated with ...

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

Appellant mother’s husband did not be­gin representing her in this case involv­ing visitation until after the circuit court already had decided to vacate the JDR court’s judgment and dismiss the case; since the lawyer delayed representation until it was certain ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals affirms an order dis­missing appellants’ petition for custody of their great-grandson, who has cerebral pal­sy and who was initially removed from the mother’s custody after she took him and his sibling with her to buy heroin. ...

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