Where appellant alleged that appellees tortiously interfered with his parental rights involving the parties’ minor child, the trial court correctly sustained appellees’ demurrer. Background Appellant Qiu and his wife married in 1995. When they separated, their daughter, M.Q., was eight ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the father and grandmother appealed a JDR court’s award of custody to a child’s maternal aunt, the circuit court held that the aunt has failed to satisfy the high burden to rebut the presumption that custody should be awarded ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge David W. Lannetti Virginia Circuit Courts

Where the court previously ruled that a divorced couple’s frozen embryos could not be partitioned under the goods or chattels statute because the statute “refers only to partition of goods or chattels found on real property being partitioned,” on reconsideration, ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Richard E. Gardiner Virginia Circuit Courts

There was sufficient evidence to support the circuit court’s protective order against the grandparents of a child in their custody and the court’s determination that the child was abused or neglected. Analysis “[T]he grandparents argue that the circuit court erred ...

Tagged with: Family Law Virginia Court of Appeals

Where mother was awarded sole custody of the parties’ children, appellant father’s assignments of error lack merit. JDR court “Father argues that the JDR court judge was biased and did not comply with the Canons of Judicial Conduct. The Court ...

Tagged with: Family Law Virginia Court of Appeals

Where a child’s former foster parents sought to regain custody after the J&DR court placed the child with her biological mother, their petitions for custody and visitation were correctly denied because they did not prove “current actual harm” to the ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Daniel E. Ortiz Virginia Court of Appeals

Where plaintiff alleges that a woman pregnant with his child committed fraud by representing she would carry to full term and co-parent with plaintiff and instead obtained an abortion, the claim is dismissed. None of her statements were false or ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge William E. Glover Spotsylvania County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A Virginia circuit court has ruled that provisions in a property settlement agreement, or PSA, which regulated introduction of the parties’ romantic partners to their child were unconstitutionally vague, void as against public policy and unenforceable. Judge David Bernhard of ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax County Circuit Court Family Law Judge David Bernhard Virginia Circuit Courts

The trial court had jurisdiction to terminate appellant’s parental rights even though an abuse or neglect determination involving the same parent and children was on appeal. Background Appellant Simms is the mother of prematurely born twins. Mother did not have ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Lisa M. Lorish Virginia Court of Appeals

Where the court changed the permanency planning goals for appellant’s children from placement at home or with a relative to placement with a relative or adoption, this was in the children’s best interest. Overview Mother’s three children are 10, four ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Doris Henderson Causey Virginia Court of Appeals