Gray v. Gray

This is an appeal from a decree denying the request of Barbara Susan Gray (mother or wife) to remove her two minor children from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the State of Arizona. By an assignment of cross-error, Jeffrey L. Gray (father or husband) contends that the court abused its discretion in awarding his wife a lump sum payment in addition to periodic spousal support.

The mother was granted custody of the parties’ two children, then ages nine and eleven, and the father was allowed reasonable visitation with the children. When the mother requested that the court permit the children to…