CHAPTER 254

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section num-
bered 8-878.1, to provide for the docketing and indexing of
judgments in the new name of the judgment debtor, where
the debtor’s name is changed, regardless of the date of the
judgment; how execution may issue thereafter. rH 4077

Approved April 3, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of 1950 be amended by adding a section num-
bered 8-378.1, as follows:

§ 8-378.1. Judgments to be docketed and indexed in new
names of judgment debtors; how execution may thereafter
issue.—Whenever there be a judgment docketed and indexed,
as required by § 17-79 of the Code of Virginia, and thereafter
a judgment debtor whose name is so recorded change his name,
whether by marriage, court order, by a voluntary assumption of
a new name or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of
the Court in which the judgment was obtained upon satisfac-
tory proof that the judgment debtor has acquired a new name,
to docket and index the judgment in the new name. For the
service rendered by the clerk he shall be paid a fee of fifty
cents. Execution may thereafter issue against the judgment
debtor in the prior name, the new name, or both. Affidavit by
any party interested in the judgment or by his duly authorized
attorney or agent that the judgment debtor has acquired a new
name, stating the new name, shall constitute satisfactory proof
of the new name. This section shall apply to all judgments
obtained prior or subsequent to the enactment hereof.