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Amissville resident vacates mother’s estate

by | Jun 23, 2024

Court forbids him to be within 1,000 feet of property

Christopher Demitry of Amissville has vacated his late mother’s estate, complying with an order to do so from a Rappahannock County Circuit Court judge after a lengthy legal battle with a neighbor over the state of the property. 

Demitry appeared in court last month, along with his neighbor Vincent Caporuscio and a legal representative of his sister, Nicole Demitry, who sued and won sole managing power over the estate at 395 Seven Ponds Road, and had given Demitry notice to vacate by the end of April, which he did not do. 

Judge James E. Plowman on May 17 gave him 24 days to remove his belongings and find alternative accommodations or be put in jail.

Demitry complied with the judge’s order, and vacated prior to his June 10 status hearing. 

A new order dated June 11 by Judge William W. Sharp was issued that said Christopher Demitry is not allowed within 1,000 feet of the Amissville property nor allowed to remove any fixtures or items from the estate without written permission from his sister or T. Huntley Thorpe, his sister’s attorney.

If he violates the order, he will be charged with criminal trespass and contempt of court, and the court “will take further action as it sees appropriate,” according to the order. 

While residing there, in what Demitry said was an “attempt to honor his mother’s legacy” and renovate the property, he dug a “courtroom-sized hole” and a trench extending to the back of the property, according to Thorpe at the May court appearance. Several metal works were also on display across the property. 

Caporuscio said the digging was “silting up” his pond, and the odd appearance of the property was making it difficult for him to sell his adjoining parcel.

Nicole Demitry is ordered to remediate soil and erosion and zoning violations on the property “as expeditiously as possible,” according to the order, and complete the required inspections. A main factor in Christopher Demitry’s barment from the property were his threatening social media posts, as described in court, which made contractors and county officials wary of entering the property while Demitry was a resident, delaying remediation of the issues.

Ireland Hayes is a reporter for Foothills Forum, a nonprofit organization that supports local news in Rappahannock County.

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    Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.

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Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.