Case Name: Donald Karl Stockdale, Jr. v. Patricia Maxwell Stockdale
Court: Supreme Court of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 2001-09-14
Citations: 262 Va. 275
Docket Number: Record No. 002485
Parties: Donald Karl Stockdale, Jr. v. Patricia Maxwell Stockdale
Judges: Present: All the Justices
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 262
Pages: 275–275

Head Matter:
Donald Karl Stockdale, Jr. v. Patricia Maxwell Stockdale
Record No. 002485
September 14, 2001
Present: All the Justices
James R. Cottrell (Michael A. Ward, Gannon, Cottrell & Ward, on brief), for appellant.
Liona Ely Freedman Grenadier (Elaine M. Vadas, Grenadier, Anderson Simpson & Duffett, on brief), for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
We awarded this appeal to review a judgment of the Court of Appeals holding that the trial court's statement that the respondent, Donald Karl Stockdale, Jr., bore the burden of showing by a preponderance of the evidence that his relationship with his children would be substantially impaired by their relocation was error, but that the error was harmless. Stockdale v. Stockdale, 33 Va. App. 179, 532 S.E.2d 332 (2000).
For the reasons set forth in the opinion of the Court of Appeals, we will affirm that court's judgment.