Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In West Virginia, the county is the unit of government, although an unsuccessful attempt to introduce the township system was made in West Virginia's first constitution. Each of the state's 55 counties has a county commission , consisting of three commissioners elected for six years but with terms so arranged that one is up for reelection every ...
Divorce jurisdiction was handled in a variety of informal ways until 1986 when a "Family Law Master" system was established, making "recommended decisions" to the judge. This system proved unsatisfactory and was replaced with the West Virginia Family Courts in 2000, and Circuit Court were assigned appellate jurisdiction in such matters.
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.
In these counties, the new magisterial districts are used only for the allocation of county officials, and the collection of census data; the former magisterial districts continue to exist in the form of tax districts. [6] A List of the current and former magisterial districts of West Virginia, sorted by county: [1] [7]
Gilmer County. none; Grant County. Allen Evans (R-48th District) Greenbrier County. Thomas W. Campbell (D-28th District) Ray Canterbury (R-28th District) Hampshire County. Ruth Rowan (R-50th District) Hancock County. Joe DeLong (D-1st District) Randy Swartzmiller (D-1st District) Hardy County. Harold Michael (D-47th District) Harrison County
Springfield is a census-designated place (CDP) in northwestern Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census , Springfield had a population of 477. [ 3 ] Springfield is located north of Romney along West Virginia Route 28 at its junction with Green Spring Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 1) and Springfield Pike (West ...
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Paul T. Farrell Sr. is a Circuit Judge in Cabell County, West Virginia. Born in Huntington, West Virginia, Farrell received a B.A. from Xavier University in 1971, followed by a J.D. degree from the West Virginia University College of Law in 1978. [1]