Legal Opinion
Lewis v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided April 21, 2006No. 051349PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYNTHIA D. KINSER, Justice.
A panel of the Court of Appeals of Virginia decided that a circuit court's interlocutory decree dismissing a cross-bill for annulment of a marriage "adjudicat[ed] the principles of a cause" and was thus appealable under Code § 17.1-405(4)(ii). Lewis v. Lewis, Record No. 1807-04-2 (May 10, 2005), 2005 WL 1079520 at *2. Because the interlocutory decree did not "respond to the chief object" of the domestic relations dispute and did not determine "`the principles' that are necessary to adjudicate the cause," we conclude that the decree was not appealable to the Court of…
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