7 Va. App. 183 - Kleinfield v. Veruki’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 48 Va. App. 113 - Black v. Powers (2006), 45 Va. App. 17 - Ranney v. Ranney (2005)
35 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Flaxman v. Flaxman · Chitwood v. Prudential Insurance · Toler v. Oakwood Smokeless Coal Corp. · Faustin v. Lewis · Henderson v. Henderson
Most-quoted passages
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“[A] bigamous marriage is void and it confers no legal rights to the parties. It is “contrary to the laws of Virginia and public policy.” Only “upon decreeing the dissolution of a marriage” do the courts of Virginia have jurisdiction to award spousal support or equitable distribution. Code §§ 20-107.1 and 20-107.3. Since the marriage ... was void and, thus, there was no marriage, the trial court had no authority to award spousal support or make an equitable distribution award. There is no authority for the parties by their actions outside of the law to invest the courts with power to treat a relationship as a lawful marriage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“for the sole purpose of allowing [the alien] to obtain naturalized citizen status in the United States ... are frequently referred to as 'green card marriages’ because of the color of the document the alien receives from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as evidence of legitimate status.” Kleinfield v. Veruki, 7 Va.App. 183, 186, 372 S.E.2d 407, 408 (1988). 2 . Thus, the amendment was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[ajuthorizes nullity judgments in circumstances where the parties lacked genuine consent and have not subsequently ratified the marriage, we believe that in New Jersey green card marriages must be merely voidable and not void ab initio. For, if the parties can subsequently ratify the marriage and give it legal effect, the marriage could not have been void from its commencement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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