29 Va. App. 82 - Wells v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “This Court, has appellate jurisdiction over final decrees of a circuit court in domestic relations matters arising under Titles 16.1 or 20, and any interlocutory decree or order involving the granting, dissolving, or denying of an injunction or “adjudicating the principles of a cause.” Code § 17.1 — 405(3)(f) and (4), recodifying Code § 17 — 116.05(3)(f) and (4). A final decree is one “which disposes of the whole subject, gives all the relief that is contemplated, and leaves nothing to be done by the court.” Erikson v. Erikson, 19 Va.App. 389, 390 , 451 S.E.2d 711, 712 (1994) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 32 Va. App. 737 - Whitaker v. Day

2. “[a]n interlocutory order that adjudicates the principles of a domestic relations dispute `must respond to the chief object of the suit,' . . . which is to determine the status of the parties' marriage and the custody of the parties' children, and, if appropriate, to award spousal and child support.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. Lewis

3. “interlocutory order that adjudicates the principles in a divorce case must `respond to the chief object of the suit which [is] to secure a divorce'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. Lewis