A wife who was a homemaker caring for the parties’ four children during their 37-year marriage gets no spousal support but she will get monthly payment of $4,500 as her share of husband’s pension after retirement from the Secret Service; ...

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Although husband was the only wage-earner during the parties’ 11-year marriage, as wife was disabled from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, wife financially contributed her monthly social security disability check, and the couple lived with wife’s parents who helped care ...

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As husband is majority shareholder of one of the couple’s businesses and managing member of the other, his interests are more marketable than wife’s corresponding minority and non-managing membership interests, and the Hanover Circuit Court awards wife one-half of the ...

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A lender may sue a widow who has defaulted on a mortgage refinance executed by her husband alone, on a theory of unjust enrichment, but the lender may not sue to quiet title or for reformation, specific performance or equitable ...

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Although wife admits to removing $47,000 from husband’s safety deposit box in anticipation of divorce, a Hanover County Circuit Court says this was not dissipation of a marital asset and orders an equal division of the marital property. The marital ...

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For a couple who is divorcing after 14 years of marriage, a Hanover County Circuit Court awards wife 60 percent of the marital estate, in light of her greater contributions to the marriage and to the acquisition and maintenance of ...

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Plaintiff business has stated claims for trespass and conversion against defendant company, which owns and is developing adjacent real estate for a hotel, for the company’s alleged trespass onto plaintiff’s property for excavation and removal of fill dirt, and the ...

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A Hanover County Circuit Court denies a petition for return of a 1997 BMW seized pursuant to a civil forfeiture under Va. Code § 19.2-386.22 for its alleged use in connection with a controlled substance or marijuana; petitioner’s claims that ...

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In this litigation arising from damages to a road allegedly due to problems with a Hanover County contract for improvements to Hanover Square, a Hanover County Circuit Court says this suit by the county and the commonwealth is timely filed ...

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At the end of this 10-year marriage between a college-educated accountant wife with separate investment properties, and a husband who has his own plumbing business, a Hanover County Circuit Court denies each party’s request for spousal support. The court also ...

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