Although father completed several drug abuse programs, two parenting classes and an inmate skills development plan while incarcerated, the Court of Appeals upholds termination of father’s rights to his two daughters who originally were removed from his home during a ...

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A divorce court did not err in finding a father in contempt for failure to pay support, but the court erred in imposing a condition of his suspended sentence providing for automatic revocation, without a hearing, upon receipt of a ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals

A divorcing couple’s Stipulation Agreement provided they were to benefit equally from two marital properties, with distributions from one either being used to pay off mortgages on the other property, or divided equally between the spouses, and a Norfolk Circuit ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge David W. Lannetti Norfolk Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The Court of Appeals rejects father’s challenge to a 2013 child support order based on a claim that the parties’ 2011 divorce decree was based on fraud, and affirms the court order holding that neither parent shall pay each other ...

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A couple’s agreement that required mother to credit father for his $2,000 monthly child support obligation with any monthly sums paid by the father’s parents did not require the wife to recognize future credits toward father’s child support obligations, and ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Justice Charles S. Russell Virginia Court of Appeals

A wife who divorced her husband while she was in prison has that decision summarily affirmed by the Court of Appeals, as she has failed to comply with numerous procedural rules. Wife did not file an appendix; instead, she attached ...

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Although mother asked for a paternity test which showed that husband was not the father of the two youngest of the three children born during their relationship, the trial court did not err in rejecting mother’s request to transfer physical ...

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Although husband claimed he could not work due to back problems, the trial court found no reliable testimony to support that position and the Court of Appeals says the trial court did not err in imputing income to him and ...

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A divorce court erred in finding that the parties’ formula for calculating spousal support for wife was ambiguous and in finding the lawyer husband in contempt for his independent application of the formula to reduce his support payments; the Court ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Wesley G. Russell Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

As the evidence before the Court of Appeals failed to establish paternity, appellant has neither standing to intervene in an adoption proceeding nor a right to withhold his consent to the adoption. This matter concerns the private adoption of an ...

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