Chap. 145.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5343 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to dispensing with intervention of guardians for infants
in certain cases. [H B 158]

Approved March 9, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That section fifty-three hundred forty-three of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

- Section 5343. Courts authorized to cause payment of money or
income or delivery of tangible personal property to or for benefit of in-
fants in certain cases, without intervention of guardians—Whenever it
appears to a court or to the judge in vacation, having control of a fund
or tangible personal property 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 a fund or
tangible personal property 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 or for delivery of tangible personal property to an infant
is rendered by any court, and the amount to which the infant is entitled
or the value of the tangible personal property is not more than five hun-
dred dollars, or whenever an infant who has no guardian is entitled to
receive payments of income or tangible personal property and the amount
of the income payments is not more than five hundred dollars in any one
year, or the value of the personal property is not more than five hundred
dollars, the court or judge in vacation may, without the intervention of a
guardian, upon its being made to appear to the court or judge in vaca-
tion, that the infant is of sufficient age and discretion to use the fund, the
tangible personal property or income payments judiciously, cause the
fund or income payments or tangible personal property to be paid or
delivered directly to the infant; and in any case in which the infant is of
such tender years as to be, or is otherwise, incapable or incompetent to
handle the fund, or income payments, or tangible personal property the
court or judge in vacation may, in its or his discretion, cause the fund
or income payments or tangible personal property to be paid or delivered
to one of the parents of the infant for its education, maintenance and
support, or if there be no living parent capable of handling the fund or
income payments or tangible personal property, cause the fund or income
payments or tangible personal property to be applied to its education,
maintenance and support by other means.