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GRISSO v. NOLEN

Record No. 002927.

554 S.E.2d 91 (2001)

262 Va. 688

Sandra Nolen GRISSO v. Dillard Lawson NOLEN.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 2, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Leach, Roanoke, for appellant.

Clyde H. Perdue, Jr. (Michaux Raine, III; Raine & Perdue, on brief), Rocky Mount, for appellee.

Present All the Justices.

Opinion by Justice LAWRENCE L. KOONTZ, JR.

In this appeal, we consider whether a decedent's former spouse had standing to petition the circuit court to have the decedent's body disinterred and reburied in accord with what he contended was the decedent's expressed wish regarding her final resting place.

BACKGROUND

Dillard Lawson Nolen and Lorraine Chitwood Nolen were married in 1955. The couple had one child, Sandra Nolen Grisso. Dillard Nolen and...

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