CLARK v. CLARK

Record No. 1122-88-2.

398 S.E.2d 82 (1990)

Marguerite Demahis CLARK v. David Osborne CLARK.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

November 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvia Clute (Clute & Shilling, on briefs), for appellant.

Jeffrey M. Zwerdling (Zwerdling and Oppleman, on brief), for appellee.

Panel: JOSEPH E. BAKER, COLEMAN and DUFF, JJ.


COLEMAN, Judge.

In this appeal we decide whether a spouse may reinstitute a divorce suit in Virginia after that spouse had previously filed and voluntarily nonsuited a divorce suit in a foreign jurisdiction. Mrs. Clark contends that the Petersburg circuit court should have declined to hear the husband's bill of complaint for divorce because he had previously filed and nonsuited a similar complaint in Switzerland. She argues...

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