Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Try changing the locks, if necessary, in order to simply lock her out. However, if that doesn't work, go down to the clerk's office of your local general district court (civil division) and explain that your father now has an unwanted house guest whom he wants evicted and wants to know what he needs to do to get her out.

Then carefully follow the clerk's instructions for filing what's called an

action for unlawful detainer against this squatter.(Your father will have to sign the

necessary paperwork since he owns the house,)