A North Carolina trial court improperly relied on non-economic marital misconduct when determining the equitable division of marital property.

The Court of Appeals of Virginia has ruled in an unpublished opinion that a premarital agreement in which a husband, without consulting counsel, waived the right to an elective share of his wife’s estate should be enforced.

Virginia parents sued a state court judge, state court agencies and state court employees over the removal of children from their care, but the defendants were entitled to immunity and the claims were otherwise barred, the suit was dismissed.

A Rochester man is suing his ex-girlfriend over two cats he claims she is “wrongfully detaining.”

Where the husband sued the attorney representing his wife in a child custody dispute, but none of his federal claims were plausible, the suit was dismissed.

The Family Court lacked jurisdiction over a child custody petition because the child was no longer under 18 years old at the time of a hearing on that petition, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled.

The South Carolina Court of Appeals reversed a family court’s award of permanent periodic alimony to the wife, finding the record showed she had the education, experience and earning capacity to support herself without ongoing payments from the husband.

The Supreme Court of Virginia upheld a stepmother’s adoption of a minor child over the biological mother’s appeal, determining that the consent of the biological mother was not required under Virginia law.

ST. LOUIS, MO — A change in residence by either parent from one state to a different state constitutes a sufficient change of circumstances to satisfy the first step of a motion to modify custody, the Western District Court of ...

RICHMOND, VA — A federal lawsuit filed in Florida is raising familiar and uncomfortable questions for HR teams about performance management timing and leave-related retaliation risk. In the case filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of ...