Attorneys – Legal Malpractice – Limitations – 1986 PSA 
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Published: September 21, 2010
Tags: Attorneys, Justice Charles S. Russell, Supreme Court of Virginia
Although a wife did not realize damages from a 1985 property settlement agreement’s bare reference to her receipt of “survivor’s benefits from the husband’s retirement pay” until 2006 when she was denied survivor’s benefits from two federal pensions, her 2009 legal malpractice action came too late, the Supreme Court says.
The circuit court held the wife’s ...
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