Spousal Support Terminates Because Ex-Wife Cohabiting with Lesbian Partner

In the case of Stroud v. Stroud, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that a husband could terminate spousal support payment to his ex-wife where ex-wife began living with her lesbian partner.  Significantly, wife sent out a Christmas letter which alerted husband to the living arrangment.  The letter was introduced into evidence.  The matter was controlled by the language of the husband and ex-wife’s separation agreement which stated that husband’s support payments would terminate upon wife’s “cohabitation with any person … in a situation analogous to marriage.”