CHAPTER 584

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
20-88.82, providing for the support of children of unwed parents by
the father under certain circumstances.

[H 611]

Approved April 3, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
20-88.32 as follows:

§ 20-88.32. Whenever in proceedings hereafter under this chapter
the court finds that the parents of a child are not married but that the
father admits before the court that he is the father of the child, the court
may then enter and enforce judgment for the support, maintenance and
education of such child as if the child were born in lawful wedlock.