Former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax - murder/suicide?

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe TMZ is covering this… Sounds like court documents say he stopped paying the mortgage, stopped private school payments and did not pay child support in the last few months.

https://t.co/1mS3cPhIDS

And if he was convicted of something like filing a false police report, there goes his bar license and his ability to pay for anything going forward (including a roof over his own head.)

TMZ have recently sent journalists to town to cover political scandals and reporting on this is of interest to them.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe his wife was a dentist. The best thing you can do is get out as fast as you can after you file if you're afraid for your life. File a restraining order and take the kids. Men are predators who will kill you while pregnant or going through a divorce. Virginia judges are not pro-women.

It's not that fast or easy.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG his kid goes my kid's school. This is horrible.

This could've been so much worse.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG his kid goes my kid's school. This is horrible.

This could've been so much worse.

I agree.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe TMZ is covering this… Sounds like court documents say he stopped paying the mortgage, stopped private school payments and did not pay child support in the last few months.

https://t.co/1mS3cPhIDS

For better or for worse, TMZ is covering politics now.

Tmz thrives on anybody whose made a headline- politicians are particularly scandalous and easy fodder, arguably more clicks than celebs - and this recent headline is heinous. Perfect storm for tmz.

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How sad for the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe his wife was a dentist. The best thing you can do is get out as fast as you can after you file if you're afraid for your life. File a restraining order and take the kids. Men are predators who will kill you while pregnant or going through a divorce. Virginia judges are not pro-women.

It's not that fast or easy.

If you have money you can. Have a relative rent you a home. Stay with friends. Go to a hotel. Better than being killed.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe his wife was a dentist. The best thing you can do is get out as fast as you can after you file if you're afraid for your life. File a restraining order and take the kids. Men are predators who will kill you while pregnant or going through a divorce. Virginia judges are not pro-women.

It's not that fast or easy.

If you have money you can. Have a relative rent you a home. Stay with friends. Go to a hotel. Better than being killed.

Dumb comment. She had no idea what he was capable of.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe his wife was a dentist. The best thing you can do is get out as fast as you can after you file if you're afraid for your life. File a restraining order and take the kids. Men are predators who will kill you while pregnant or going through a divorce. Virginia judges are not pro-women.

It's not that fast or easy.

If you have money you can. Have a relative rent you a home. Stay with friends. Go to a hotel. Better than being killed.

But you are required to leave the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe his wife was a dentist. The best thing you can do is get out as fast as you can after you file if you're afraid for your life. File a restraining order and take the kids. Men are predators who will kill you while pregnant or going through a divorce. Virginia judges are not pro-women.

As a woman who had to do exactly this ^, I just have to re-post this and pray that this advice reaches others in need.
Even with a protective order in place, the police don't care that there are guns in the house. They can't forcibly remove them (or wouldn't in my case). Fairfax PD literally took my ex's word that he gave the gun to a relative. As soon as I went back home and saw the reported gun still in the nightstand, I packed what I could and left. Sure, there's a chance that you'll get accused of abandonment, but you will hopefully save your own life.

In my case, I got my life and eventually, the house.

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Someone murdered another soul and forever traumatized his children.

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Hopefully this won't get deleted, its public available info, not an opinion, that helps build an understand at what lead him to this.

https://people.com/justin-fairfax-defaulted-on-usd30k-in-credit-card-debt-before-murder-suicide-11951938

- Fairfax Defaulted on $30K in Credit Card Debt
- Cerina claimed that Fairfax had failed to pay his half of their children's tuition and neglected to pay the mortgage on their home.
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I feel horrible for the poor children. I hope they have loving and caring family members. I feel so bad for the wife.

And that's all I can say, because we're still in the critical window.

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I feel horrible for the poor children. I hope they have loving and caring family members. I feel so bad for the wife.

And that's all I can say, because we're still in the critical window.

I feel terrible that they were living in such dysfunction for so long, then this trauma added on.

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Anonymous wrote:It is reported they were in the middle of a messy divorce. So awful.

Ugh. Another layer of awful.

In Virginia, you must be separated for a year in order to get divorced and you can live in the same house while being separated (if you move you it can be seen by the court as abandoning your claim to the house, happened to my cousin). Reports are that the couple had started this process so I am not surprised they were both still living in the house.

Fairfax made an accusation against his wife earlier this year that she had physically assaulted him. Apparently she had cameras in the house and after reviewing the footage the police determined the assault claim wasn't valid and there was a scheduled upcoming court date re this incident which could be what triggered the current awful events.

There were 2 teen sons in the house. This is absolutely awful.

I hope this is a wake up call to change the law re: leaving the home. It forces women into staying in a potentially very dangerous situation.

That and the 1 year separation. What is the purpose??
Tragic.

Maryland recently shortened their one year separation requirement to six months if there are no children in the marriage. I think the rationale is that the state has an interest in wanting couples to be sure they need to get a divorce before they do? Not supporting this.

Virginia has that law too. Six months with no kids, but that wouldn't have changed anything here.

In Virginia if you file for divorce on grounds like cruelty there's no separation period, but then you're basically litigating almost a DV case (it's not quite that hard, but it's not easy) plus handling the difficulties of divorce.

Hopefully without wading too much into the controversy, I do hope this case highlights how dangerous the period after separation is for women in divorce cases in far too many cases, and perhaps has an impact on Virginia law. It's not just the ability to physically leave - there's so much more, though certainly not less.

She filed one year and one day after the date of separation. They had been separated since June/July 2024 according to her filing, so she filed in July 2025. It appears the issue may have been over the house, and if either of them left/moved out they abandon their rights to claim it. This is what kept her in jeopardy if she felt she couldn't leave. The required separation time was over.

This is not accurate for Virginia. I left the house because of DV, stayed out for the duration of the divorce litigation in court, and still ended up with the house in the end. If kids are involved and divorce is contentious, you can make a very strong argument for living apart from the other parent (in the best interest of the children).
The way my attorney explained it: a judge could question my parenting judgement if I returned home, knowing that both of us being in the same home would not be healthy for the kids.