Matter of Romena Q. v. Edwin Q.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court could consider for the first time on appeal a challenge asserting that the circuit court lacked statutory jurisdiction to hear an appeal from a particular type of decision issued by a hearing officer
• “Under settled principles, such jurisdiction ‘cannot be conferred on the court by the litigants’ and a challenge to it ‘cannot be waived.’ ” (quoting Virginian-Pilot Media Cos, v. Dow Jones & Co., 280 Va. 464, 468, 698 S.E.2d 900, 902 (2010))
• “Under settled principles, such jurisdiction ‘cannot be conferred on the court by the litigants’ and a challenge to it ‘cannot be waived.’” (quoting Virginian-Pilot Media Cos. v. Dow Jones & Co., 280 Va. 464, 468, 698 S.E.2d 900, 902 (2010))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).