The trial court is vested with broad discretion to make the decisions necessary to safeguard and promote the child's best interests, and its decision will not be set aside unless plainly wrong or without evidence to support it. 9 Va. App. We previously ruled that husband's appeal from that order was untimely and we do not revisit that issue in this appeal. See Frydrychowski v. Frydrychowski, Record No. Challenges to the trial court's 1994 decision are out of time.
Husband also assigns error to the trial court's refusal to restore two days of visitation.
As the party seeking a change in visitation, husband bore the burden to demonstrate a material change in circumstances and that those circumstances warranted a change in visitation. Husband asserted that the two minor children, while apparently doing well under the current arrangement, would be better off if he had greater visitation. After hearing the parties testify concerning the existing visitation arrangements, the trial court denied husband's motion to change visitation. The credibility of the witnesses was a matter for the trial court to determine. The record contains no evidence demonstrating that the trial court's decision was not in the best interests of the children or that it was plainly wrong.