1994 V.C.C. (VLW 094-8-092) Pederson v. Pederson Domestic Relations Equitable Distribution – Dissipation – Hybrid Property Although the husband used much of the $280,142 he withdrew from an Individual Retirement Account after the parties’ separation for normal family expenses, the ...
Read More »Property – Residential Property Disclosure Act – Termite Damage (309825)
Commercial – Guarantees – Statute Of Frauds – Signed Writings (309841) 
1994 V.C.C. (VLW 094-8-246) Dyer v. Hart Wills & Trusts New Will – Revocation – Distribution Scheme Lacking – Intestate Succession Where the drafter of the document in question though that the testator intended only to appoint a new executor ...
Read More »Negligence – Auto Accident – Learner's Permit – Supervising Driver's Liability 
Although a Virginia statute requires that a driver operating a vehicle with a learner’s permit have another licensed driver over 18 years of age occupying the passenger seat, this statute requiring a supervising driver does not impose a particular duty ...
Read More »Contract – Existence Of Contract – Demurrer Standard 
Although defendant demurs to this breach-of-contract suit on the ground that none of the three contracts plaintiff attached to the pleadings are enforceable and that the contracts ultimately amounted to an unaccepted counteroffer by defendant, the court concludes that a ...
Read More »Intellectual Property – Color Transparencies – Conversion – Bailment (309889) 
1994 V.C.C. (VLW 094-8-151) Anderson v. Sharma Civil Practice Frivolous Suits – Pre-Filing Review Where plaintiff’s many harassing and vindictive suits against members of the Fairfax judiciary and other defendants have disrupted and abused the judicial system, plaintiff shall be ...
Read More »Contract – Essential Terms – Negotiation Letter 
Where plaintiff bank wrote to defendant regarding his attempt to renegotiate a loan, and the letter communicated alternative transaction amendments, stated that the loan documents would have to be modified and asked defendant to contact the bank, the letter represented ...
Read More »Workers' Comp – Back Injury – Emergency Room Treatment 
Where claimant had been under treatment for ongoing, work-related back pain, and the emergency room report submitted by claimant merely reflects ongoing complaints of back pain, claimant has not established a need for emergency room treatment or shown any referral ...
Read More »Taxation – Estate Tax – Durable Power-Of-Attorney – Retroactive Statute 
Where the decedent granted his only son a durable power-of-attorney in January 1987 which gave the son a general grant of authority, and the son used the power-of-attorney in March 1987 several weeks before decedent’s death to make a series ...
Read More »Criminal – Firearms Possession – Civil Rights Restoration – W. Va. Law 
Where the district court dismissed defendant’s indictment charging him with possession of firearms as a felon because the court concluded defendant’s civil rights had been restored by a West Virginia state court’s probation discharge order, the dismissal is reversed and ...
Read More »Criminal – Drug Conspiracy – Money Laundering – Venue 
Although the trial court, in refusing to dismiss the money laundering charge against defendant, may have betrayed confusion about the statute’s requirement that subjective knowledge that the money used in the laundering transaction came from an illegal source, the evidence ...
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