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SMOOT v. SMOOT

Record No. 841565.

357 S.E.2d 728 (1987)

Bernice Elizabeth Lam SMOOT v. Ronald Leo SMOOT.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 12, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Ralston, Jr. (Nancy D. Poster; Moore, Jackson, Graves & Ralston, Harrisonburg, on brief), for appellant.

Paul J. Neal, Jr., Woodstock, for appellee.

Present: POFF, COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, and THOMAS, JJ., and COCHRAN, Retired Justice.

POFF, Justice.

We consider two issues presented in a wife's appeal from a divorce decree: whether the chancellor erred in granting the husband a monetary award equal to his cash contribution to the construction of the marital home and whether the chancellor gave proper consideration to the fault ground of divorce in determining the equitable distribution award.

Ronald and Bernice Smoot were married in August 1975...

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