The Court of Appeals affirms a trial court order finding a mother in contempt for failure to pay child support, despite her claim that father still owed her a support arrearage after a court transferred primary physical custody from mother ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds an order prohibiting a son’s contact with mother’s husband, who is an alcoholic, when the mother has visitation with the children, and prohibiting her from leaving her son during custodial visits, except for an emergency, ...

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A couple who was married by a rabbi without the benefit of a marriage license, which was obtained later and signed by the celebrant one month after the wedding ceremony, was not legally married, and the Court of Appeals upholds ...

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A woman does not have to repay nearly $600,000 in temporary support and attorney’s fees to the man she thought was her husband, even though a court declared their marriage void. The Court of Appeals upheld the trial court’s decision ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds termination of a father’s parental rights to his six children based on allegations of sexual abuse. Father argues the circuit court erred by denying his motion to continue and his motion objecting to the admission ...

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A trial court’s finding that circumstances had not materially changed since the court’s last order on custody and visitation is affirmed by the Court of Appeals; the father has returned to the area to live after working in Afghanistan and ...

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The Court of Appeals affirms an order requiring wife to pay $30,940 in attorney’s fees for husband, as the trial court properly rejected wife’s claim that husband had to comply with the business records requirements of Va. Code § 8.01-390.3 ...

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A trial court’s grant of foster parents’ petition for adoption of two siblings terminates the children’s legal relationship with their biological grandparents; the Court of Appeals upholds the adoption order and termination of the grandparents’ visitation rights as in the ...

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A couple’s PSA calling for husband to pay $5,000 in monthly child support until each of the two children graduates from college, in exchange for wife’s waiver of spousal support and her marital share of husband’s business interests, does not ...

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

The Court of Appeals accepts a statement of facts prepared by appellant’s counsel and stamped as “seen” with the trial judge’s initials, and affirms defendant’s conviction of violation of a protective order by coming within 1,000 feet of his child’s ...

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