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Overview Of Virginia Supreme Court Cases On Domestic Relations: 1970-1980, Peter N. Pross
Overview Of Virginia Supreme Court Cases On Domestic Relations: 1970-1980, Peter N. Pross
University of Richmond Law Review
The Supreme Court of Virginia examined a variety of domestic relations problems and issues during the last decade. Most of the court's decisions involved divorce issues such as jurisdiction, alimony or support and maintenance, and child custody or support orders. However, the court also decided cases on annulment, the enforcement of support and maintenance decrees, legitimacy and paternity, adoption, name changes and intrafamily tort immunity.
The Legislative Abrogation Of Interspousal Immunity In Virginia, Lisa Anderson-Lloyd
The Legislative Abrogation Of Interspousal Immunity In Virginia, Lisa Anderson-Lloyd
University of Richmond Law Review
Is a wife who hires someone to murder her husband liable in tort for the injuries he sustains in the murder attempt? The Virginia Supreme Court faced just this question in 1980 in Counts v. Counts. In light of the partial abrogation of the doctrine of interspousal immunity by the Virginia Supreme Court during the 1970's in wrongful death actions and inactions for damages in motor vehicle accident cases, a well reasoned prediction would have anticipated a further erosion of the doctrine. In Counts, however, the court disallowed the interspousal suit for an intentional tort, signaling that it had no …