Court Opinion

ID: 9582507
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:28:05.433494+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:53.707172
License: Public Domain

Barrow, J.,
dissenting.
The trial court’s determination that the parties are married adjudicates the principles of this proceeding. Because of this ruling, this proceeding will result in the parties obtaining a divorce or remaining married. Had the trial court determined that they are not validly married, neither result would follow. The decree appealed from will “of necessity affect the final order in the case”; therefore, it adjudicates the principles of this cause. Pinkard v. Pinkard, 12 Va. App. 848, 851, 407 S.E.2d 339, 341 (1991). For this reason, I dissent.