Wife can be awarded spousal support when her pleadings didn't ask for it but husband's asked that "the Court make an appropriate award of spousal support."

Ruane v. Ruane, 2016 Va. App. LEXIS 320 (November 22, 2016): Husband's complaint specifically requested that "the Court make an appropriate award of spousal support," and this open-ended request "was sufficient to permit the circuit court to award spousal support to wife in the final decree of divorce, even though it was husband who made the request to the court.