Testimony from a social worker and from the guardian ad litem, as an officer of the court, indicated mother’s two children who were over age 14 consented to termination of the mother’s parental rights, and the Court of Appeals upholds ...

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Siblings who traded accusations over use of their mother’s money have spent thousands on legal fees, and the legal wrangling is still not over. A son is fighting with two sisters, both sides claiming the other breached duties under a ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Hanover County Circuit Court Henrico County Circuit Court Judge Catherine Hammond Judge T.J. Markow Richmond Circuit Court

A mother with a history of incarceration and substance abuse but who has been steadily employed, passed her drugs screens and anticipates release from probation will get another chance to petition for visitation with her child, who is being reared ...

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The inconvenience and embarrassment suffered by a child’s father is not sufficient to support his petition under Va. Code § 8.01-217 to change the child’s surname from the mother’s maiden surname to the father’s surname, and the Supreme Court of ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Justice Cleo E. Powell Supreme Court of Virginia

The Court of Appeals upholds termination of parental rights for a mother who was convicted of domestic violence and was hospitalized for a heroin overdose and was at “extremely high” risk for relapse. Mother was ordered to attend parenting classes, ...

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The Court of Appeals upholds termination of the parental rights of mother who was intellectually disabled, had briefly lived in a storage unit, and was unable to parent the child who had never been in her custody. The trial court ...

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The Court of Appeals will not entertain assignments of error cited by appellant mother in the lower court’s orders terminating her parental rights to two children and approving relative placement of two other children, as mother has committed numerous procedural ...

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The Court of Appeals summarily affirms a trial court order maintaining physical and legal custody of the parties’ two minor children with the father, as the mother has failed to properly file a transcript or written statement of facts, failed ...

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In this first-impression case, a trial court erred in failing to include wife’s Pell Grant in the calculation of her gross income, but not in excluding her personal injury settlement annuity and “free” home provided by her mother; the Court ...

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

A husband must pay wife $22,540.88 in attorney’s fees and costs for appeals to this court and the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Court of Appeals holds. Wife presented evidence from an expert witness who opined that the work performed ...

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