Mary Ellen Guilfoyle v. Joseph Charles Guilfoyle ( 1996 )

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
Present: Chief Judge Moon, Judges Coleman and Bray
Argued at Norfolk, Virginia
MARY ELLEN GUILFOYLE
MEMORANDUM OPINION * BY
v. Record No. 0118-96-1 JUDGE RICHARD S. BRAY
JULY 9, 1996
JOSEPH CHARLES GUILFOYLE
FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
Jerome B. Friedman, Judge
J. Russell Fentress, IV (Goss, Meier &
Fentress, on brief), for appellant.
No brief or argument for appellee.
Acting on remand from this Court, the trial court awarded
Mary E. Guilfoyle (wife) spousal support of $2,300 per month from
Joseph C. Guilfoyle (husband) and ordered husband to pay $4,000
of wife's attorney's fees. On appeal, wife complains that these
awards are inadequate. We disagree and affirm the decision of
the trial court.
The parties are fully conversant with the record, and a
recitation of the facts is unnecessary to this appeal. Under
well established principles, a trial court is vested with broad
discretion in awarding both spousal support, see Papuchis v.
Papuchis, 2 Va. App. 130, 133, 341 S.E.2d 829, 831 (1986), and
attorney's fees, see Graves v. Graves, 4 Va. App. 326, 333, 357
S.E.2d 554, 558 (1987), and we review such decrees only for an
*
Pursuant to Code § 17-116.010 this opinion is not
designated for publication.
abuse of discretion. See Graves, 4 Va. App. at 333, 357 S.E.2d
at 558; Papuchis, 2 Va. App. at 133, 341 S.E.2d at 831.
Here, we find that the trial court properly considered the
appropriate statutory imperatives in fixing the disputed spousal
support and did not abuse its discretion in awarding such support
or the related attorney's fees. Accordingly, we affirm the
decree.
Affirmed.
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