Chap. 58.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5343 of the Code of YS S133
Approved February 26, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-three hundred and forty-three of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5343. To authorize courts to pay money to infants en-
titled thereto, or to their parents, in certain cases, without the in-
tervention of a guardian.—Whenever it shall appear to a court having
control of a fund or supervision of its administration, whether a suit be
pending therefor or not, that an infant is entitled to a fund arising from
the sale of lands for a division or otherwise, or as distributee of any
estate, or from any other source, or whenever a judgment, decree, or
order for the payment of a sum of money to an infant is rendered by
any court, and the amount to which said infant is entitled is less than
five hundred dollars, it shall be lawful for the said court, without the
intervention of a guardian, upon its being made to appear to said court
that the said infant is of sufficient age and discretion to use said fund
judiciously, to cause said fund to be paid directly to said infant; and in
any case in which said infant is of such tender years, or is otherwise
incapable or incompetent to handle said fund, it shall be lawful for the
court, in its discretion, to cause said fund to be paid to one of the par-
ents of said infant for the education, maintenance, and support of said
infant; or in the event that there is no living parent capable of handling
said fund, to cause said fund to be applied to the maintenance and
support of said infant by other means.