Where the court entered a final order regarding custody, visitation and support after finding that father “continued ‘to scuttle the process,’” of the court’s efforts to repair father’s relationship with the parties’ children, the court correctly denied father’s motion filed ...

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

Where the circuit court offset the equitable distribution monetary award to husband against wife’s spousal support award, based on the court’s assumption that wife would otherwise be due 14 years of support, this had the effect of impermissibly conditioning the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals

Where wife was presented with a property settlement agreement and accepted it without objection, the trial court properly incorporated it into the final decree of divorce. Agreement “[W]e impute to wife an intention corresponding to the reasonable meaning of her ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the parties’ premarital agreement did not address the payment of marital debt during the marriage or up to the time of a divorce, wife cannot rely upon the agreement to insist that husband reimburse her for half of the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the trial court denied husband’s motion for reduced spousal support because wife acquired a job, the trial court properly determined that this was not a material change in circumstances that warranted modifying husband’s support obligation. But the trial court’s ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Louise M. DiMatteo Judge Wesley G. Russell Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Where defendant’s plea in bar asserts that the parties were divorced by a Jordanian court, rendering moot plaintiff’s divorce action filed in this court, the plea in bar is denied because the court will not grant comity to the Jordanian ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Grace Burke Carroll Virginia Circuit Courts

Where husband did not provide the court with documentation about his wife’s retirement account, he cannot complain on appeal that the court awarded the account to wife instead of making an equitable distribution. Retirement account “Husband alleges that he had ...

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

Where the circuit court overruled the juvenile and domestic court’s decision not to issue appellee a protective order, the JDR court’s decision was a final order for appeal purposes. As a result, appellant’s argument that the circuit court lacked jurisdiction ...

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

Even though adultery was not raised by a husband in his initial divorce pleadings, the husband could use allegations of adultery to argue for lower alimony payments, the Court of Appeals of Virginia says. The court’s threejudge panel held it ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Virginia Court of Appeals News

Appellant’s 18 assignments of error in this appeal arising from the modification of a child support obligation are denied, as are two cross-assignments of error from the appellee. After considering the equities of this case, appellee is awarded $12,663 in ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals