Chap. 329.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5111 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to divorces and dissolution of marriages,
maintenance of parties, care, custody and maintenance of children, and prop-
erty rights. [H B 226]

Approved March 29, 1934

1. 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,
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.

An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.