Legal Opinion
Hill v. Brooks
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided February 28, 1997No. Record 961095PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Carrico
On May 10, 1994, Arthur Brooks (Brooks) filed in the court below a bill of complaint against his daughter, Arlean Inez Brooks Hill (Hill). In the bill, Brooks sought to have the trial court set aside a deed of gift dated November 23, 1984, whereby Brooks conveyed to himself and Hill as joint tenants with the common law right of survivorship a sixteen-acre tract of land in Loudoun County (the Property).
Brooks and his first wife, Inez Harris Brooks, acquired the Property in 1949 as joint tenants with the right of survivorship. Inez died in 1964. At the time he executed the deed of gift to…
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