Chap. 418.—An ACT to: amend and re-enact Section 5111 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, relating to divorces and dissolution .of mar-
riages, maintenance of parties, care, custody and maintenance of children,
and property rights. [H B 301]

Approved April 1, 1938

ee | Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-one hundred and eleven of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5111. Upon decreeing the dissolution of a marriage, and
also upon decreeing a divorce, whether from the bond of matrimony
or from bed and board, and upon decreeing that neither party is entitled
to a divorce the court may make such further decree as it shall deem
expedient concerning the estate and the maintenance of the parties, or
either of them, and the care, custody and maintenance of their minor
children, and may determine with which of the parents the children or
any of them, shall remain; and the court may, from time to time after-
wards, on petition of either of the parents, revise and alter such decree
concerning the care, custody, and maintenance of the. children and
make a new decree concerning the same, as the circumstances of the
parents and the benefit of the children may require; and upon petition
of either party may increase, decrease, or cause to cease, any alimony
that may thereafter. accrue whether the same has been heretofore or
hereafter awarded, as the circumstances may make proper. Upon the
entry of a decree of divorce from the bond of matrimony, all contingent
rights of either consort in the real and personal property of the other
then existing, or thereafter acquired, shall be extinguished.