Chap. 14.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5343 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the payment of money to infants
entitled thereto, or their parents by courts without the intervention of a
guardian. [H B 11]

Approved February 16, 1928

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

_ Section 5343. Whenever it shall appear to a court, or to the
judge thereof in vacation, 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 fot
the payment of a sum of money to an infant is rendered by any
court, and the amount to which said infant 1s entitled is less than
five hundred dollars, it shall be lawful for the said court, or the
judge thereof in vacation, without the intervention of a guardian,
upon its being made to appear to said court, or the judge thereof
in vacation, 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 1s of such
tender years, or is otherwise incapable or incompetent to handle said
fund, it shall be lawful for the court, or the judge thereof in vaca-
tion, in its discretion, to cause said fund to be paid to one of the
parents 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 main-
tenance and support of said infant by other means.