Dooley v. Dooley

278 S.E.2d 865 (1981)

Phyllis Marie Wertz DOOLEY

v.

Thurman Wayne DOOLEY.

Record No. 790750.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 12, 1981.

Diana M. Perkinson, Roanoke (Perkinson & Perkinson, Roanoke, on brief), for appellant.

David A. Bowers, Roanoke (Evans B. Jessee, Roanoke, on brief), for appellee.

Before CARRICO, C. J., and HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON and STEPHENSON, JJ.

THOMPSON, Justice.

In this appeal we are called upon to decide whether the trial court erred in denying spousal support to Phyllis Marie Wertz Dooley (wife) and in awarding custody of a seven-year-old son to Thurman Wayne…