A mother’s opening brief lacked sufficient principles of law and legal authorities to merit review of the circuit court’s order finding a risk of abuse or neglect and approving the goal of adoption for her child. Background Mother and Father, ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Family Law Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

Based on expert testimony that a father of eight is unable to parent independently, that his rights as to the elder seven have been terminated, and that his youngest is doing well in foster care, the circuit court did not ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

The circuit court did not err in its handling of the parties’ divorce, notwithstanding the husband’s 18 assignments of error on appeal. In particular, evidence supported both the court’s jurisdiction over the parties despite their long trips abroad and the ...

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

A “husband” whose nine-year marriage was negated because the couple’s Washington wedding was at odds with their Virginia paperwork cannot save the union by labeling it a common law marriage under D.C. law. The Court of Appeals of Virginia ruled ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals

A couple who got a license to marry in Virginia but held their ceremony in Washington, D.C. was not legally married, despite living together as husband and wife for nine years. Their one-night hotel stay in D.C. after the ceremony ...

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

The trial court erred in holding a father in contempt for failing to notify the mother of their child of the date of their son’s first communion. Background Father and Mother, who separated in 2008, are subject to a final ...

Tagged with: Civil Procedure Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals affirms the commission’s denial of a Federal Express worker’s Aug. 27, 2015, claim for permanent partial disability benefits for his Jan. 8, 2009, workplace accident; he failed to preserve his claim with benefits claims forms he ...

Tagged with: Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

A trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant’s motion to withdraw his pleas of guilty to rape, sexual battery, burglary, attempted robbery, use of a firearm and related charges, after defendant claimed his trial counsel coerced him ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

The Court of Appeals affirms a circuit court decision upholding findings of the Fairfax County Department of Code Compliance, which had issued notice to appellants for seven violations of the Uniform Statewide Building Code at their Annandale, Virginia property; the ...

Tagged with: Administrative Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

A vocational expert testified that husband was voluntarily underemployed and could earn $240,000 annually; the VE’s testimony, husband’s past earnings and his rejection of a job transfer or severance package supported the trial court’s denial of a support modification, says ...

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