A trial court’s award of a preserved pre-embryo to a wife with no compensation to the husband for his share of the marital property has been reversed by the Court of Appeals. Chief Judge Marla Graff Decker remanded the case ...

Tagged with: Judge Marla Graff Decker Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

Even though the trial court erred by granting the mother’s motion to strike at the end of the Lynchburg Department of Social Services’ case-in-chief in this child abuse and neglect matter, the error was harmless because the court would have ...

Tagged with: Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

In terminating a father’s parental rights, the circuit court did not err in finding that relative placement with the father’s mother would be detrimental to the child due to the possibility that she would permit the father to live with ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert J. Humphreys Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

Because a mother first raised the fact of a positive drug test on her sentencing date in a different matter, and because her children had been in foster care for nearly a year and a half, the circuit court did ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert J. Humphreys Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

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 terminating the parental rights of a father of six based on his conviction for involuntary manslaughter six years earlier. The offense arose from the death of his infant daughter when he left her ...

Tagged with: Criminal Family Law Judge William G. Petty Parental Rights Virginia Court of Appeals

Twin baby girls who, at about four months old, were found to have bone fractures and subdural hematomas indicative of abuse, could not be returned to their parents’ care when the parents were not forthcoming about how the abuse might ...

Tagged with: Family Law Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Parental Rights Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

The circuit court did not err in concluding that a 12-year-old girl who had been fostered for two years by the same family, along with her siblings, should not be placed instead with her incarcerated father’s mother. The father’s family ...

Tagged with: Parental Rights Per Curiam Opinion Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals

Despite significant compliance with social services requirements to reunite with her five living children, a mother had not substantially remedied the conditions that required them to be placed in foster care. She had not seen the children since they were ...

Tagged with: Family Law Parental Rights Per Curiam Opinion Unpublished Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals