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· 4/29/1983

Rochelle v. Rochelle

Citations

  • 302 S.E.2d 59
  • 225 Va. 387
  • 1983 Va. LEXIS 234

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “When a court acquires jurisdiction of the subject matter and the person [in a divorce case], it retains jurisdiction until the matter before it has been fully adjudicated.”
  • “The court’s jurisdiction, once properly invoked, is not lost because a part of the claim on which it was based is later found to lack merit.”
  • “The court’s jurisdiction, once properly invoked, is not lost because a part of the claim on which it was based is later found to lack merit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Carrico, Cochran, Poff, Compton, Stephenson, Russell, Harrison

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