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Prior to 1986, each Circuit Judge handled divorce cases directly, often adopting local informal procedures, which varied from county to county, to deal with the caseload. There are currently forty-seven family court judges who serve twenty-seven family court circuits. Family court judges, are elected for a term of eight years.
Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in West Virginia since October 9, 2014. On July 28, 2014, a ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Bostic v. Schaefer found Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
In December 2011, Delegate John Doyle introduced a bill to legalize civil unions in West Virginia as one of his last acts before retirement in 2012. [5] [6] It was submitted to the House of Delegates in February 2012 and died without a vote. [7] West Virginia extended hospital visitation rights to same-sex couples through a designated visitor ...
For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. l l l The West Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill that, if it becomes law, would give family courts ...
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Adultery laws are the laws in various countries that deal with extramarital sex.Historically, many cultures considered adultery a very serious crime, some subject to severe punishment, especially in the case of extramarital sex involving a married woman and a man other than her husband, with penalties including capital punishment, mutilation, or torture. [1]
West Virginia state senators on the Judiciary Committee rejected a bill on Wednesday to ban child marriage under all circumstances. The bill, which was narrowly voted down 9-8 by the committee ...
A fault divorce is a divorce which is granted after the party asking for the divorce sufficiently proves that the other party did something wrong that justifies ending the marriage. [8] For example, in Texas, grounds for an "at-fault" divorce include cruelty, adultery, a felony conviction, abandonment, living apart, and commitment in a mental ...