WORSHAM v. WORSHAM

Record No. 0663-21-3.

867 S.E.2d 63 (2022)

74 Va. App. 151

Gabriel Seth WORSHAM, Executor of the Estate of Raleigh Elmore Worsham, v. Kathleen Bonnie Crispin WORSHAM, Individually and as Trustee of the Raleigh E. Worsham QTIP Trust.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Lexington.

January 11, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul McCourt Curley (Six East Law Group—Curley Law Firm, PLLC, on briefs), for appellant.

Monica T. Monday ( Glenn W. Pulley , Danville; Amanda M. Morgan , South Boston; Timothy M. Purnell , Manassas; Gentry Locke ; Purnell, McKennett & Menke, PC, on brief), for appellees.

Present: Judges Humphreys, AtLee and Raphael.


Under the parol-evidence rule, when a written contract unambiguously expresses the agreement of the parties, extrinsic evidence of the parties' prior or contemporaneous discussions is inadmissible to contradict the written terms. The primary issue on appeal here is whether a post-nuptial agreement is ambiguous...

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