Where a police officer told appellee on her front porch that she could either let him in and give her a package of drugs intended to be delivered to a prisoner or that he could get a search warrant, the ...

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Claimant had the burden to prove that the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission erred by accepting a permanent partial disability rating and a functional capacity evaluation endorsed by her treating physician to award her a 2 percent permanent disability. Claimant did ...

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Where the trial court granted wife a reservation to seek future spousal support, the record does not support husband’s claim that the reservation was incorrectly granted because wife’s “desertion and cruelty” was responsible for destroying the parties’ marriage. As an ...

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Even though husband earned more than wife, the trial court correctly denied her support request because husband did not have the ability to pay. Further, given that husband had to borrow $80,000 to pay for his divorce litigation, wife’s request ...

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The trial court erred by not awarding retroactive child support because the applicable statute requires that child support liability be calculated from the date the proceeding commenced. Wife challenges the effective date of the court’s child support order. “[T]he trial ...

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Appellant’s transfer of road maintenance funds from a segregated account to his own business account was not an embezzlement because the funds were paid to him but not entrusted to him. Further, appellant’s notice to a property owner to pay ...

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Where a couple’s separation agreement provided that the husband was responsible for procuring and maintaining a specific medical coverage plan for the wife because the parties mistakenly believed that the wife would be eligible for coverage under that plan, the ...

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Where a husband and wife both sought a decree of divorce and the husband was given ample opportunity to proffer evidence in the divorce hearing and submit his owned proposed decree of divorce, the court was not required to delay ...

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Where a property settlement agreement provided that the wife was entitled to one-half of the monthly disability and retirement benefits her husband was receiving, and the amount of the husband’s monthly benefit increased after the divorce became final, the wife ...

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Where a passenger of a vehicle was found guilty of possession after nearly a kilogram of cocaine was found inside the vehicle and his request for a deferred sentence was denied, the denial was upheld because he failed to assign ...

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