Opinion
Record No. 0787-92-4
April 20, 1993
FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY H. SELWYN SMITH, JUDGE.
Fredric Elliott Rainey, pro se.
No brief or argument for appellee.
Present: Judges Barrow, Willis and Fitzpatrick.
Argued at Alexandria, Virginia.
Pursuant to Code § 17-116.010 this opinion is not designated for publication.
Fredric Elliott Rainey appeals a final decree of divorce, which awarded Rose Etta Rainey a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii, on the grounds of a one-year separation. Appellant argues that the trial judge erred by: (1) failing to award him a divorce based on his wife's desertion; (2) not adequately taking into account appellant's contributions and the lack of appellee's contributions to the marriage in the disposition of the marital home; (3) awarding appellee an excessive amount of appellant's pension; (4) awarding appellee liquidated sums despite evidence showing that appellant used these funds to maintain the marital home; (5) awarding alimony to appellee in light of her economic situation and her role in causing the dissolution; (6) awarding appellee half of the proceeds from the sale of vehicles titled only in appellant's name; and (7) ordering disposition of four real-estate parcels, other than the marital residence.
An appellant has the primary responsibility of ensuring that a complete record is furnished to an appellate court, so that errors assigned may be decided properly.
The record on appeal contains no transcript of the October 22, 1991 ore tenus final divorce and equitable distribution hearing, nor a statement of facts.
Since a transcript or statement of facts, neither of which is in the record, is indispensable to a determination of the issues raised by appellant, this appeal must be dismissed. See Rule 5A:8, Anderson v. Commonwealth, 13 Va. App. 506, 413 S.E.2d 75 (1992); Turner v. Commonwealth, 2 Va. App. 96, 341 S.E.2d 400 (1986).
Dismissed.