Custody of children
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5078 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the issuance of marriage licenses for certain persons under twenty-one years of age. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5247, 5249 and 5316 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the probate of wills and the appointment and qualification of appraisers of estates, administrators, executors, curators and’ guardians. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5090 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the age of consent for marriage. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new chapter, numbered 216-A, and twelve new sections, numbered 5333-a to 5333-1, providing for the adoption of children and prescribing the procedure and incidents thereof; and to repeal Section 5333 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section, numbered 5333-bl, to provide for jurisdiction of cases pending on the effective date of Chapter 205, Acts of 1942, which added Sections 5333-a to 5333-1 to the Code of Virginia: to provide for the further procedure in such cases; to validate certain orders and actions in cases so pending; and to declare the existence of an emergency. |
| An ACT to provide for appointment of conservators, under certain circumstances, for property of persons reported as missing, interned, captured, et cetera; and to provide how any such conservatorship may be terminated. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5111 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to dissolution of marriages and divorce. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5316 of the Code of Virginia as amended, relating to appointment of guardians for minors, to authorize clerk. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact certain sections of the Code of Virginia as follows: Sections 1020 and 1022 as amended, 1030, 1031 as amended, 1032, 1033, 1034, 1035, 1037 and 1038, all relating to the care, custody and control of insane and feeble-minded persons, epileptics and inebriates; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding seven new sections numbered 1020-a, 1035-a, 1035-b, 1037-a, 1037-b, 1037-c and 1037-d, all relating to various and several aspects of the same subject. |
| An ACT to repeal Sections 1936, 1937 and 1938 in Chapter 80 of the Code of Virginia, relating to desertion and non-support; to amend the Code by adding in Chapter 80 seven new Sections numbered 1936, 1936-a, 1937, 1937-a, 1937-b, 1937-c and 1938, relating to the same subjects, to contain, with certain amendments, the same matters as the sections of the Code repealed and as contained in Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, as amended, of Chapter 416 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 27, 1918, which relate to the same subjects : and to repeal Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, and all amendments thereof, of Chapter 416 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918, approved March 27, 1918, relating to the same subjects. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1950 of the Code of Virginia as amended, relating to jurisdiction of juvenile and domestic relations courts so as to broaden the jurisdiction in certain cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5327, 5328 and 5329 of the Code of Virginia, relating to custody of and access to minor children in certain cases, to make certain changes in jurisdiction and rights of parents and others. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5333-d of the Code of Virginia relating to consent of certain persons in adoption cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5 of Chapter 483 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved March 27, 1922, which chapter provided for the appointment, in the counties and in certain cities, of special justices to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts and prescribed their jurisdiction, powers, duties and compensation, Section 5 relating to powers and jurisdiction of such special justices. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5983 of the Code of Virginia, relating to how person may change name. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5343 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to dispensing with intervention of guardians for infants in certain cases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5317 and 5325 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, such sections relating to the appointment of guardians, their powers and duties, and the investment of fiduciary funds. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5333-c and 5333-f of the Code of Virginia, relating to the procedure for the adoption of children. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1080-a of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the appointment of guardians or committees for persons incapable of taking care of their person or property. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5333-e of the Code of Virginia, relating to interlocutory orders and final orders of adoption in proceedings for the adoption of minor children. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5334, and 5335 as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to lands of persons under disabilities, and to further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section, numbered 5334-a, making certain provisions of Chapter 217 of the Code applicable to the lands of certain ex-service persons. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 693 of the Code of Virginia, relating to admission of non-resident pupils. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 5115 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to merging a decree for divorce from bed and board into a decree from the bonds of matrimony. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 5111, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to the powers of courts and in regard to the estate and maintenance of parties and custody, etc., of children in divorce st 208 |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 20-49 of the Code of 1950, relating to the circumstances under which consent is required for a person to marry and how such consent is given. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 20-61 of the Code of 1950, relating to desertion and nonsupport, so as to raise the amount of forfeiture in such cases. |
| An Act to provide a State-wide system of juvenile and domestic relations courts with probation officers and juvenile detention facilities, to define their powers and duties and to repeal §§ 116-130-172, inclusive; §§ 63-257 through 63-288 inclusive; §§ 63-294 through 63-307 inclusive of the Code of 1950. |
| AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section numbered 20-71.1,80 as to make certain provisions for attorney’s fees in proceedings under § 20-71 of the Code of 1950, relating to temporary orders for support. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-888 of the Code of 1950, relating to liens on real estate of decree for alimony, to extend the provisions to maintenance, support and education of infant children of parties to a divorce |
| AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a new section numbered 68-848.1, so as to provide under certain conditions for the adoption of adult persons. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-49, amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to consent required for marriage and how given. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 46-363 of the Code of Virgiua, relating to issuance of licenses to operate motor vehicles to minors. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 16-172.1, 16-172.4, 16-172.6, 16-172.7, 16-172.9, 16-172.11, 16-172.17, 16-172.28, 16-172.25, 16-172.80, 16-172.31, 16-172.83, 16-172.88, 16-172.89, 16-172.42, 16-172.48, 16-172.44, 16-172.49, 16-172.51, 16-172.52, 16-172.60, 16-172.65, 16-172.66, 16-172.67, 16-172.69, 16-172.70, 16-172.71, 16-172.75, 16-172.77, 16-172.78, 16-172.79 and 16-172.80 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the purpose and intent of the juvenile and domestic relations law, to juvenile and domestic relations courts, judiciary and officials, to jurisdiction, practice and procedure of such courts, to commitments and arrests and detention of juveniles, and to the probation officers of such courts; to repeal § 16-172.73 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local superintendents as probation officers and to appropriate funds. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered § 63-356.2, relating to when, in certain adoptions, reference to and investigation by the Director of Welfare and Institutions may be dispensed with. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 63-362 of the Code of Virginia, relating to annulments of adoption, so as to lamit the time within which such action may be brought. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by amending § 63-848, providing for the adoption of children and prescribing the procedure and incidents |
| An Act to repeal 8§ 68-872 and 68-878, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to transfer of wards of certain schools to other places of confinement under certain conditions, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 68-878.1, providing for certain criminal proceedings against certain persons in the custody of the State Department of Welfare and Institutions under certain circumstances. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 20-88.82, providing for the support of children of unwed parents by the father under certain circumstances. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 37-231, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the sexual sterilization of certain mentally ill, mentally deficient and epileptic persons, and to amend the Code by adding a section numbered § 37-231.1 relating to the same matters. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-72 of the Code of Virginia, relating to suspending of sentence and release on probation, of defendants in desertion and nonsupport cases, so as to remove one class of persons from those to whom the court may direct certain payments to be made. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.63 of the Code of Virginia, relating to detention and release of certain children taken into custody. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 81-5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appointment of guardians. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 20-61 as amended, 20-62, 20-63 and 20-88 as amended of the Code of Virginia, relating to desertion or nonsupport of wife, children and parents in certain circumstances, punishment therefor, forfeitures, commitment to certain penal institutions and payment of certain funds for the support of such dependents. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 20-88.21 and 20-88.22 of the Code of Virginia, relating to contents of petitions and duties of courts of this State as an initiating state under the uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support of Dependents Act; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding §§ 20-88.21-1, 20-88.22-1 and 20-88.22-2, relating respectively to provision of counsel for certain petitioners, bringing of petitions with the appointment of guardians ad litem, arresting of defendants in certain cases, and duties of the Department of Welfare and Institutions as the State Information Agency. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.61 of the Code of Virginia, relating to issuance of warrants for children. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 8-888, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to liens on real estate of decrees for alimony and for maintenance, support and education of infant children of parties to a divorce proceeding. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 37-1, 87-2, 37-4, 87-5, 87-6,and §§ 87-181, 87-182, 37-188, 37-185, 87-186, 37-187, all as amended, and § 37-188, and §§ 87-189, 37-192, 87-212, 37-218, and 37-231, all as amended, of the Code of Virginia, ‘relating to insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate persons, and drug addicts, and giving the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals certain authority formerly exercised by the State Hospital Board; to amend and reenact § $87-1.1 of the Code containing certain definitions pertaining to Title 87; to amend and reenact § 37-85, as amended, of the Code relating to the escape, sickness, death, or discharge of the mentally ill in the custody of a sheriff or sergeant; to amend and reenact §§ 37-1386, 87-187, 87-189 and $7-189.1, all as amended, relating to the appointment of committees for persons legally incompetent due to mental illness or mental deficiency; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto new sections numbered 87-97.1, relating to arrest without warrants of certain mentally ill persons, 87-186.1, 87-136.2 relating to a person being adjudicated insane or feeble-minded by a court of record; and to repeal §§ 37-188 and 87-201, as amended, of the Code relating to the appointment of guardians and committees for mentally deficient persons, and $7-226, as amended, of the Code relating to certain definitions. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.77, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the supervision of ‘child or minor on parore. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-107 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers of courts to make certain decrees upon decreeing a divorce or the dissolution of a marriage. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.41 and §§ 16-172.42 and 16-172.48, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 16-172.42:1, all relating to the transfer of cases involving a child or minor. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 8-170 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compromise of claims for personal injury to infants or insane persons. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 46-868, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the application of minors for operators’ licenses |
| An Act to permit the release from confinement of certain offenders under certain conditions, and the requiring from such persons payment of moneys earned by them as reimbursement for expenditures for support of their dependents. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 68-291 and 68-292 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal §§ 68-289 and 68-290 of the Code of Virginia, all of which sections relate to delinquent, dependent and neglected children. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 63-849, as amended, and 68-854 of the Code of Virginia, relating to investigations and visitations in adoption matters so as to require certain persons and agencies to make such investigations and visitations under certain circumstances. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 18-82 of the Code of Virginia, relating to adultery and fornication; incest. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-348 and 63-851, as amended, and 63-356.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to requirements for bringing petition for adoption, how consent for adoption given and adoption by certain spouses. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 8-577.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the procedure for changing names. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 16-172.44, as amended, and 16-172.47 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain decrees and orders affecting children or minors, to the transfer of certain information upon the commitment of children. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.28, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the jurisdiction of juvenile and domestic relations courts. |
| AN ACT to authorize the Governor to execute, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a certain compact relating to juveniles; to declare the policy of the Commonwealth with regard to certain juveniles; to authorize the appointment of a compact administrator and prescribe his powers and duties; to provide for the payment of certain obligations, to prescribe the jurisdiction of certain courts in certain cases, and to authorize certain agreements with regard to the return of run away juveniles. |
| AN ACT to amend and reenact $§ $7-61.1, 37-64, 37-99, 37-102, 37-109, 46-418 as amended, and 46-426 of the Code of Virginia, relating to methods of commitment, composition of commissions, representation by counsel, appeals from commitment, and effects of commitment, including revocation or suspension of motor vehicle operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 18-318, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to persons forbidden to frequent, or play or loiter in public poolrooms or billiard rooms. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 18-6 of the Code of Virginia, relating to causing or encouraging children to commit offenses. |
| An Act to authorize the State Hospital Board under certain conditions to establish, construct, equip and operate a State hospital within the geographical limits of certain counties. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 68-246 of the Code of Virginia, relating to confidential records of child welfare agencies. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 64-25 of the Code of Virginia, relating to assignment of curtesy. |
| AN ACT to repeal §§ 31-19 through 31-25 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 4 of Title 31, new sections numbered 31-19.1 through 31-19.12, the repealed and new sections all relating to gifts to minors. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-176 of the Code of Virginia, which was enacted in Chapter 587 of the Acts of Assembly of 1956, relating to presentment of certain children to grand juries. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-61.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the support of children of unwed parents by the father of such children. |
| An Act to require the inclusion in school budgets of amounts sufficient for the payment of grants for educational purposes; to provide for local governing bodies raising money for educational purposes and making appropriations therefor; to provide for the expenditure of such funds for payment of such grants and transportation costs under certain circumstances; to empower the State Board of Education to make rules and regulations and pay such grants; to provide for the withholding of certain funds and the use thereof; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act. |
| An Act to create a Pupil Placement Board and confer upon it powers as to enrollment or placement of pupils in the public schools and determination of school attendance districts, and to provide for administrative procedure and remedies for pupils seeking enrollment in a school or a change from one school to another school. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-54 and 8-76, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to serving notices in a sutt for annulling a marriage or for divorce. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-61, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to desertion or nonsupport of wife or children in necessitous circumstances. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-78 as amended, 68-241, 68-851 as amended, and 16.1-178 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local boards of welfare, and child placing agencies, consent required for adoptions, and to practice and procedure of courts having jurisdiction of certain children or minors charged with certain offenses. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-158 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jurisdiction of juvenile courts. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-79 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the effect of divorce proceedings upon the jurisdiction of certain courts as to alimony, support and custody. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 16.1-176.1, so as to provide for trial of a juvenile sixteen years of age or over by a court of record under certain circumstances. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-857 of the Code of Virginia, relating to licensing persons under eighteen and allowing cities to prohibit them from driving so as to allow certain counties to prohibit such persons from driving. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 37-87 of the Code of Virginia, relating to receipt of gifts and endowments by the State Hospital Board. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 37-75, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees and expenses of commitment of certain persons to certain institutions. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-107, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of courts to make certain decrees in divorces and dissolution of marriages. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-178 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to decrees and orders of Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts, to validate consents to adoptions given by Boards of Public Welfare and other agencies in certain cases. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-210 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the supervision of child or minor on parole. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-79 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the effect of divorce proceedings in desertion and non-support proceedings. |
| An Act to amend chapter 540 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950 which provided a new Charter for the town of Haymarket, by adding in Article III thereof a section numbered 2, to confer on the trial justice of the town certain additional jurisdiction. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 20-88.1, providing for transfer of certain cases between courts, in certain instances. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 68-848.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to adoptions. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-178, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to decrees which may be made by juvenile and domestic relation courts. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-113 of the Code of Virginia, relating to procedures when respondents fail to perform certain orders of support. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 37-96 as amended of the Code of Virginia, relating to the disposition of children born in a colony or hospital of the Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals of this State. |
| An Act to amend and reenact 8§ 68-849, 68-852, 68-858, 68-854, 68-855, 63-356, as amended, and § 68-860 of the Code of Virginia, relating to preliminary investigation in adoption proceedings, visitations during probationary periods, omission of probationary period in certain instances, final order of adoption and disposition of reports made in such cases. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 68-848, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to requirements for bringing petitions for adoption. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 20-88.20 of the Code of Virginia, relating to enforcement of duties of support under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 8-170, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to compromise of claims for damages to certain persons. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 81-26 through 81-29 of the Code of Virginia, so as to permit a savings and loan association to act as custodian under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-178, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to decrees of juvenile and domestic relations courts. |
| An Act to amend and reenact §§ 14.1-44, 16.1-1238, and 16.1-124 and 16.1- 158 as amended of the Code of Virginia, relating to disposition of fees and fines in courts not of record and jurisdiction of such courts; and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 17-82.1, establishing the jurisdiction of certain courts as to certain proceedings. [H 547] |
| Act to amend and reenact § 20-121, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to merger of decree of divorce from bed and board into a final decree of divorce and other procedural matters relating thereto. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 8-694 of the Code of Virginia, relating to disposition of proceeds from sale of lands of persons under disability. |
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