Domestic Relations – Divorce – Marital Home – Purchase Option 
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Published: October 29, 2010
Tags: Domestic Relations, Judge Robert P. Doherty Jr., Salem Circuit Court, Virginia Circuit Courts
Where the marital home is the family house wife grew up in, and she attempted to buy the home before she married husband, she shall have the first opportunity to purchase the marital home for herself, says a Salem Circuit Court.
Although husband claimed wife committed adultery, and the parties’ tenant claimed to have had sex ...
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