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 ...

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

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 ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Charles N. Dorsey Roanoke County Circuit Court

A trial court erred in its equitable dis­tribution based on its characterization and classification of two properties sold by hus­band, who had a business “flipping” hous­es in addition to a salaried position with a university; the Court of Appeals also ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Stephen R. McCullough Virginia Court of Appeals

A circuit court abused its discretion in approving mother’s pre-existing relo­cation of the two children to Ohio for her new job without a comprehensive, detailed court-ordered visitation schedule for the father, who had suffered a traumatic brain injury in a ...

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

A trial court erred in denying husband’s motion to reduce wife’s spousal support payments of $20,000 per month for a 12- year period, based on fluctuations in the lawyer husband’s income during the mar­riage and their property settlement agree­ment’s contemplation ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Stephen R. McCullough Virginia Court of Appeals

A lawyer whose income fluctuat­ed during his law firm’s efforts at merger gets a chance to lower his $20,000 monthly spousal support payment under a March 22 deci­sion from the Virginia Court of Ap­peals. An Arlington trial judge denied the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals upholds a trial court order that refused to enforce the parties’ agreement that father would not pay child support for the couple’s three children. Mother moved to modify child support. She alleged father was not visiting ...

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

The Court of Appeals rejects a mother’s claim that the trial court erred in terminating her parental rights to her two children because the local social services department did not refer her to inpatient treatment for substance abuse. The department ...

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

The Court of Appeals upholds termination of parental rights to twin boys born to a father incarcerated after pleading guilty to a number of drug-related offenses. The department unsuccessfully attempted to locate suitable relative placements. Upon their placement in foster ...

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