Stockdale v. Stockdale

• Court: Supreme Court of Virginia
• Decided: September 14, 2001
• Docket: 002485
• Status: Published

Opinion

Present: All the Justices

DONALD KARL STOCKDALE, JR.

v. Record No. 002485 PER CURIAM September 14, 2001 PATRICIA MAXWELL STOCKDALE

FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA

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.