
    Donald Karl Stockdale, Jr. v. Patricia Maxwell Stockdale
    Record No. 002485
    September 14, 2001
    Present: All the Justices
    
      James R. Cottrell (Michael A. Ward, Gannon, Cottrell & Ward, on brief), for appellant.
    
      Liona Ely Freedman Grenadier (Elaine M. Vadas, Grenadier, Anderson Simpson & Duffett, on brief), for appellee.
   PER CURIAM

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.  