When the General Assembly enacted equitable distribution in 1982 as the mechanism for dividing the property of divorcing spouses, it created a presumption that property acquired during the marriage is marital – the property of both spouses. The legislature created ...

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Reaffirming its holding in Anderson v. Commonwealth, 251 Va. 437 (1996), the Supreme Court of Virginia holds that the exclusionary rule is not applicable in probation revocation proceedings absent a showing of good faith on the part of the police; ...

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Although circumstantial evidence may support a man’s claim that he moved his family to a Sussex County farm and assisted his elderly aunt and uncle after they promised to leave the farm to him after both died, there was no ...

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