A circuit court has examined the legislative history of Virginia’s protective order statute and concluded that new or additional evidence is not required for an extension. Floyd County Circuit Court Judge K. Mike Fleenor Jr., found that “requiring Petitioner to ...

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A protective order may be extended under Code § 19.2-152.10(B) without the petitioner presenting new or additional evidence. Background In January 2020, petitioner obtained a protective order against respondent. Before the order expired, petitioner sought to extend the order. She ...

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Where the commonwealth seized property allegedly connected with marijuana distribution, the forfeiture action is dismissed. The property is held by a married couple as tenants by the entirety and only one of the tenants was convicted of a marijuana distribution ...

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A Floyd County circuit judge has refused to allow the state to seize a couple’s home alleged to have been the site of a major marijuana distribution operation. The judge cited the fact that only one spouse had been convicted ...

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The court grants husband’s motion to dismiss wife’s divorce complaint based on evidence of wife’s condonation and resumption of cohabitation, even though husband cannot “precisely identify and disclose with particularity and detail each and every act of adultery.” Overview “On ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge K. Mike Fleenor Jr. Montgomery County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Where decedent held property with two others as joint tenants with right of survivorship, decedent interest passed by operation of law to the other joint tenants, and the bank holding decedent’s car loan cannot seek to satisfy the loan from ...

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