Marie Holt Hart v. James P. Hart, III

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a trial judge may not enter a decree that is inconsistent with a valid agreement of the parties
• holding that in determining the value of a party’s non-marital contribution to hybrid property under Code § 20-107.3(A)(3), the important factor “is the value that improvements add to the property, not their cost”
• apportioning the costs of maintaining and repairing easements between the parties to a divorce
• “Fashioning an equitable distribution award lies within the sound discretion of the trial judge and that award will not be set aside unless it is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.” (quoting Srinivasan v. Srinivasan, 10 Va. App. - 18 - 728, 732 (1990))
• under common law, power to grant easement in suit for partition is necessarily implied in court's power to make partition
• formula that apportions the marital and non-marital components of hybrid property

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