RICHMOND, Va. — The Court of Appeals of Virginia has reversed a trial court’s refusal to modify the spousal support order of a 70-year-old man who voluntarily retired due to the physical demands of his job even though the parties ...

Though her choice of words — “shared custody” — may not have been the best, a motion judge acted within her discretion when she granted specific performance of an estranged unmarried couple’s agreement to share possession of a dog equally, ...

Where the record supported the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services’ conclusion that a man’s first marriage was fraudulent, and this finding doomed his second application for lawful permanent residence because of the “marriage fraud bar,” USCIS’ denial of the man’s ...

A Probate & Family Court judge acted properly by considering a couple’s custom of allocating a significant portion of income as savings in setting the amount of spousal support, the  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. “In this case, we ...

A U.S. District Court judge who denied a petition under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction did not commit clear error by relying on evidence of events that occurred after the filing of the petition, ...

The Rhode Island Family Court has jurisdiction to decide a custody dispute between a mother living with her children in Rhode Island and the children’s father in Australia, the state Supreme Court has decided. The mother, plaintiff Kelly Fitzgerald, a ...

After civil and divorce trials in six New Jersey counties were suspended last year amid an ongoing shortage of judges, proceedings have resumed. In both impacted vicinages, progress has since been made to restore the bench. According to New Jersey ...

A British couple was entitled to 50 percent of the proceeds from the partition sale of residential property that they helped their son and his wife purchase, a Rhode Island Superior Court judge has ruled. Defendant Tara Maflin; her husband, ...

The murder victim’s recently obtained emergency protective order against appellant was correctly entered into evidence because it was probative of, among other things, the “strained state” of appellant and the victim’s marriage, the Virginia Court of Appeals has held. “The ...

The Michigan Supreme Court has left undisturbed an appellate ruling that said a trial court erred when it ordered a change in custody for two minor children from the father’s sole legal custody to joint legal custody with the mother ...