Chap. 680.—An ACT to authorize the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia to
pay money to infants entitled to it, or to their parents, in certain cases, without
the intervention of a guardian.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in any sult
pending in any of the courts of this Commonwealth, circuit, county, >
corporation, in which an infant is entitled to a fund arising from tl«
sale of lands for division or otherwise, or as distributee of any estate, and
the amount to which said infant is entitled is less than one hundred dol-
lars, it shall be lawful for said court, without the intervention of
guardian, upon its being made to appear to said court that the said infam
is of sufficient age and discretion to use said fund judiciously, to cans
said fund to be paid directly to said infant; and in any case in whic!
said infant is of such tender years, or is otherwise incapable or incon
petent to handle said fund, it shall be lawful for the court, in its discre-
tion, to cause said fund to be paid to one of the parents of said infam
for the education, maintenance, and support of said infant; or in th
event that there is no living parent capable of handling said fund. ts
cause said fund to be applied to the maintenance and support of sal.
infant by other means.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.