Fernandez v. Fernandez
This text of 17 Va. Cir. 439 (Fernandez v. Fernandez) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Fairfax County Circuit Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Complainant seeks a decree affirming, ratifying, and incorporating a "property settlement agreement" as its Decree in a suit for separate maintenance. Defendant acknowledges the agreement but objects to a Decree.
Va. Code Section 20-109.1 allows a court to affirm, ratify, and incorporate by reference a valid property settlement agreement in a "decree dissolving a marriage or a decree of divorce." A suit for separate maintenance requests neither a decree of divorce nor dissolution. I know of no authority allowing such incorporation by the court in the context of a suit for separate maintenance. I deny complainant’s request.
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