Stockdale v. Stockdale

Present: All the Justices
DONALD KARL STOCKDALE, JR.
v. Record No. 002485 PER CURIAM
September 14, 2001
PATRICIA MAXWELL STOCKDALE
FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
We awarded this appeal to review a judgment of the Court
of Appeals holding that the trial court's statement that the
respondent, Donald Karl Stockdale, Jr., bore the burden of
showing by a preponderance of the evidence that his
relationship with his children would be substantially impaired
by their relocation was error, but that the error was
harmless. Stockdale v. Stockdale, 33 Va. App. 179, 532 S.E.2d
332 (2000).
For the reasons set forth in the opinion of the Court of
Appeals, we will affirm that court's judgment.