Two mothers – one genetic and one gestational – have won a court order to list both women as parents on their twins’ birth certificates. The two women married in Washington, D.C. in 2012 and currently live in the Richmond ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge T.J. Markow Richmond Circuit Court

The Court of Appeals upholds termination of a mother’s parental rights to her son based on mother’s history of drug abuse and drug distribution. The social services department removed the child from the home because of substance abuse issues. Mother ...

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

A mother who abused drugs and alcohol, who was delusional and refused to take her medications, and who admitted to sexually abusing her older son when he was an infant, loses her parental rights to her infant son in the ...

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

The Court of Appeals upholds termination of parental rights for a mother who left her seven-month-old daughter strapped into a car seat on top of a motel bed while the mother left to smoke crack cocaine for two hours; the ...

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

The Court of Appeals upholds $10,000 in monthly spousal support and an award of 25 percent of the value of the couple’s commercial rental properties to wife after 18 years of marriage;  husband inherited some of the properties from his ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Teresa M. Chafin Virginia Court of Appeals

Although husband deposited his paychecks into a bank account wife used to pay the mortgage for two years during the parties’ marriage, other expenses were paid from that account and wife supplemented the account with funds from another bank account ...

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A divorce court did not abuse its discretion in reducing a 71-year-old wife’s $1,200 spousal support obligation to her 80-year-old husband to $900 per month, in light of limitations on her ability to make capital improvements on her real estate ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals

A husband’s refusal to produce certain electronic devices and provision of a reformatted computer amount to spoliation of evidence which prompt the Hanover County Circuit Court to grant negative evidentiary inferences with regard to husband’s adultery and secretion and waste ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Hanover County Circuit Court Judge J. Overton Harris Virginia Circuit Courts

Although the Salem Circuit Court finds a material change in circumstances, the court denies mother’s petition to move with the couple’s 8-year-old son to Henderson, Tenn., with her new husband, and denies father’s petition to change primary custody from mother ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge James R. Swanson Roanoke County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Roanoke County Circuit judge refused to approve a mother’s request to relocate with her eight-year-old son to her new home in Tennessee, even though she appeared to have better parenting skills than the father with whom she shared joint ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge James R. Swanson Roanoke County Circuit Court