Custody of children
| An act to divorce Jane Craft, of Norfolk county, from her husband. |
| An ACT to Amend the First Section of Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Eight of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and sixty, in regard to Change of Names. |
| AN ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section four of Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-five of the Code of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty, in Relation to the Maintenance of Illegitimate Children. |
| An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 13, Chapter 127, of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860), and to Extend the Powers of Circuit Courts in relation to the Estates of Infants. |
| An Act to Amend and Re-enact section 13 of chapter 123 of the Code of 1878, relative to the Power of Circuit and Corporation Courts over Guardians and Wards. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 14 and 17, of Chapter 82, Code of 1878, in reference to examination of lunatics. |
| An ACT to amend the Charter of the Female Humane Association of the City of Richmond. |
| An ACT to amend the Charter of The Richmond Male Orphan Society. |
| An ACT to amend section six, chapter one hundred and twenty-three, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to Guardians, Curators, &c. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the ninth section of chapter 146, of the Code of 1878, to the right of action on bonds of fiduciaries. |
| An ACT to amend the third section of an act to incorporate St. Paul’s Church Home, passed February 19, 1861. |
| An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Richmond, to establish and maintain a house of reformation and work-house. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2616 and 2620 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887. |
| An ACT to legalize the adoption of minor children |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2597 of the code of Virginia, in regard to testamentary guardians. |
| An ACT to prevent the abatement by the death of the ward, if a male, or the death or marriage of the ward, if a female, of suits instituted by a guardian for the sale of his ward's estate, and to revive suits heretofore instituted by such guardian which have abated by the death or marriage of the ward. |
| An ACT for the relief of George M. Ratcliffe |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1670, 1683 and 1693 of the code of Virginia, in relation to lunatics and lunatic asylums. |
| An ACT to prevent the escape of persons in the custody of the rison association of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize certain persons when arrested or convicted to be committed to the custody of the Prison association of Virginia |
| An ACT to empower any judge or justice of the commonwealth before whom a minor under sixteen years of age is convicted of a misdemeanor to substitute stripes in lieu of fine and imprisonment, or of either, with the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor. |
| An ACT relating to the support and maintenance, In certain cases, of minors committed to the Prison association of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act entitled an act In relation to commitment of minors to Prison association of Virginia and their custody |
| An ACT in relation to the government of the negro reformatory association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment, and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the commonwealth for caring for such minors. |
| An ACT in relation to the commitment of minors to the custody of the prison association and their detention and discharge by said association. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3680 of the code of Virginia in reference to rape and its punishment. |
| An ACT to prevent cruelty to children, and to regulate and provide for their control and custody in certain cases. |
| An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Southampton, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Clarke, and Fauquier counties to make rules concerning the working of criminals sentenced to work on the public roads or farms, or other public works of said counties, and to provide suitable buildings for the care and custody of said criminals. |
| An ACT in relation to commitment of minors to Prison association of Virginia and their custody. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled "an act to authorize certain persons, when arrested or convicted, to be committed to the custody of the Prison association of Virginia" |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘‘an act to incorporate the Children’s Home Society of Virginia, |
| An ACT to incorporate the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to children. |
| An ACT to provide for the incorporation of associations or societies for charitable and benevolent purposes, and for the care, custody, and maintenance of and for the prevention of cruelty to children. |
| An ACT to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardianship of children who are vicious, or depraved, or without proper places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian, or other custodian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2616 and 2620, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 23, 1888, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 5, 1888, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved April 2, 1902, and sections 2621 and 2622 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, so as to authorize and prescribe certain rules governing the leasing of the lands of infants or insane persons, and to repeal section 2617, and to amend and re-enact section 2625 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 5, 1896. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2599 ; section 2600, as amended by an act of the general assembly approved March 3, 1898, and sections 2601 and 2602 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor to desert without just cause or wilfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances, and to provide a penalty therefor. |
| An ACT in relation to the commitment of minors to the Prison Association of Virginia, their custody therein, the compensation for, and expenses of, such custody, and their discharge therefrom. |
| An ACT to allow compensation to the ‘Virginia home and industrial school for girls” for caring for girls committed to its custody and control under the commitment of a court, judge, or justice. |
| An Act to Amend and Re-Enact an Act to Provide Places of Abode and for the Safe Custody and Proper Guardianship of Children |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3138 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the method whereby any citizen residing in this State may change his name; and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardianship of children who are vicious, or depraved, or without proper places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian or other custodian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor for parents or guardians to refuse or neglect to support their children under fourteen years of age, or to subject children under seventeen years of age to vicious or immoral influence, encourage any child to commit a misdemeanor, or to send a child under seventeen years of age to certain places; punishment therefor, and declaring an emergency. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardianship of children who are vicious or depraved, or without proper places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian or other custodian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to legalize the adoption of minor children by adult persons |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1660 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to hospitals for the insane, so as to provide proper and separate custody of insane convicts and certain other insane persons. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1698 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to require the inspection and supervision of the State board of charities and corrections of persons or corporations placing children in family homes; said persons or corporations to furnish information; the State board of charities and corrections to visit and report upon the children placed in homes; authorizing the courts to commit destitute and delinquent children to the State board of charities and corrections, and said board to place said children in homes or reformatories to report to the court under certain contingencies; penalties prescribed. |
| An ACT to authorize the counties and cities of the State, jointly or severally, to establish county or city farms, and providing for the Joint use of the same, and for the government and support of persons confined therein. |
| An ACT to provide for the commitment of delinquent, dependent, or neglected children to the State board of charities and corrections, and to certain societies, associations, or reformatories, and authorizing such organizations to place said children in suitable homes and institutions; defining the terms “delinquent,” “dependent,” and “neglected” child: when children under eighteen years of age may or may not be sent to jail, workhouse, police station or penitentiary; requiring parents in certain contingencies to pay for support of delinquent, dependent or neglected children, providing for physical and mental examination of children, and for placing them in hospitals when necessary; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; allowing delinquent children to be released on probation; prescribing the procedure in the hearing of children’s cases; penalties for removing or interfering with any child committed hereunder, or for violating any provision hereof; allowing jury trials and appeals; and providing for the supervision and inspection of societies and associations by the State board of charities and corrections. |
| An ACT to provide, in cities containing 50,000 inhabitants or more, for the election of a special justice of the peace, to be known as the justice of the juvenile and domestic relations court, and to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties. |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect to provide for the support of his child or children under the age of sixteen years; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provisions for the apprehension and punishment of persons convicted of non-support, and providing that persons convicted of non-support shall be sent to the convict road force in certain contingencies; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of said recognizances; providing for the appointment of probation officers and prescribing their duties and powers; and making chief of police and sheriff probation officers in certain contingencies. |
| An ACT providing additional powers and duties of the State board of charities and corrections. |
| An ACT requiring committees of persons lawfully confined in certain institutions of Virginia, who have no kin in the relation of husband or wife or child dependent on them, and who possess estates to pay to the steward of the institution in which they are confined such incomes as may arise from their estates to provide for such persons extra comforts not provided by such institutions in the ordinary maintenance of inmates. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act in relation to the government of the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, and to the commitment, government, employment and discharge of negro minors committed thereto, and providing compensation to be paid by the Commonwealth for the caring for such minors |
| An ACT to provide who may have custody, services and earnings of legitimate unmarried minor children. |
| An ACT to provide for the commitment by any court having jurisdiction of such persons convicted therein of a misdemeanor or the violation of a city ordinance to any county or city farm; to provide for the commitment by the several courts and police justices of this State of juveniles that might be committed under the terms of an act approved March 27th, to any county or city farm; and to provide for the necessary expense of removing and delivering any person to said farm; and to provide the expense for the maintenance and support during the period of his or her confinement upon such farm. |
| An ACT relating to the filing of answers in suits for the sale of infants’ interest in real estate. |
| An ACT to provide for the disposition of infants of convict mothers. |
| An ACT making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts. |
| An ACT for the protection of patients and inmates of State hospitals and colonies for the insane, epileptic and feeble-minded from improper and unlawful marriages and providing punishment for violation of this act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1029 of the Code of Virginia in relation to testing the legality of detention of persons adjudged insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5333 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to prohibit the selling of children; to protect children from wilful or negligent injuries; and to prevent children from being overworked, tortured, tormented, mutilated, or cruelly beaten or cruelly treated. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1905 to 1922, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1945 to 1953, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, and to add six new sections to the said Code, to be numbered 1951a, 1951b, 1951c, 1951d, 1951e, and 1951f. |
| An ACT to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizance, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918. |
| An ACT to accept the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, approved November 23, 1921, entitled an act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes. |
| An ACT to provide for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to divorces. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5316, 5317 and 5318 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the appointment of guardians and their bonds. |
| AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 1021 of title 12, chapter 46, of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1068 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to commitment of inebriates to State hospitals for the insane |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5316 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the appointment of guardians by courts, judges and clerks. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5316, 5317, 5318 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to what courts or clerks may appoint guardians. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1053 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the appointment of committees, their bonds, and when estate may be committed to a sheriff or sergeant. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5314, 5316 and 5320 of the Code of Virginia, all of which sections are in chapter 216 of the said Code entitled “Guardians and Wards.” |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 241 of the acts of assembly of 1918, entitled an act relating to the filing of answers in suits for the sale of infant’s interests in real estate so as to include insane persons within the provisions of said act. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5337 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to guardians ad litem. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 1903-a providing for the disposition and care of expectant mothers who are prisoners in any penal institution in this State and for the care of such children born of such prisoners. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1085 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to duties of courts when a person before it appears to be feeble-minded. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of nonsupport; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties, and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5090 of the Code of Virginia, relating to marriage of persons under the age of consent. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5337 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1045 of the Code of Virginia, as last amended by an act approved March 19, 1920, relating to insane and feeble-minded persons. |
| An ACT to permit the trial together of cases for personal injury of infants, with claims for the expenses of curing or attempting to cure infants from such injury. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to divorces and dissolution of marriages, maintenance of parties, care, custody and maintenance of children, and property rights. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the adoption of minor children by adult persons, so as to provide for reporting adoptions to the State Bureau of Vital Statistics. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4950 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when and how persons held in custody, or under a capias pro fine, may be hired out to pay fine and costs. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled an act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts, approved March 27, 1918, in relation to jurisdiction in cases of desertion and non-support. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide, in certain cases, for the payment out of county and city treasuries of allowances for the support of children in their own homes and for the partial reimbursement by the State of the counties and cities making such payments; also to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved February 28, 1918,” approved March 27, 1922, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of an act entitled “An act making it a misdemeanor for a husband to desert or neglect his wife or for a parent to desert or neglect his children; prescribing the penalty therefor, and making provision for the apprehension and punishment of persons charged with or convicted of non-support; providing for the taking of recognizances, and for the forfeiture and enforcement of the same; providing for the appointment. of probation officers, prescribing their duties and powers, and repealing certain acts’ |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to divorces and dissolution of marriages, maintenance of parties, care, custody and maintenance of children, and property rights. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4768 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the limitation of certain prosecutions. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5078 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to issuance of marriage licenses for certain persons under twenty-one years of age. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the adoption of minor children. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 683 and 684, as heretofore amended, 685, and 686 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compulsory school attendance, records and reports and the duties of certain officers relating thereto, and providing penalties for violations; and to further amend the said Code by adding thereto a new section numbered 686-a, providing for the enforcement of compulsory attendance laws and penalties for violations. |
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