CHAPTER 238

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-751 as amended of the Code of Virginia,
relating to moneys under control of court so as to provide for the
payment of certain small amounts to certain persons. CH 124]

Approved March 138, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8-751 as amended of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

8-751. 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 incom-
petent person who has no guardian or committee or 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 pay-
ment of a sum of money or for delivery of tangible personal property to
* such incompetent person or infant is rendered by any court, and the
amount to which * such incompetent person or infant is entitled or the
value of the tangible personal property is not more than one thousand
dollars, or whenever * such incompetent person or infant * is entitled to
receive payments of income or tangible personal property and the amount
of the income payments is not more than one thousand dollars in any one
year, or the value of the personal property is not more than one thousand
dollars, the court or judge in vacation may, * in its discretion, and with-
out the intervention of a committee or guardian, cause such fund, prop-
erty or income to be paid or delivered to one of the parents of such
incompetent person or infant, if any such parent be living and be deemed
by the court or judge capable of properly handling the same, and if there
be no such parent, then to any person deemed by the court or judge
capable of properly handling same, to be used by such parent or other
person solely for the education, maintenance and support of the incom-
petent person or infant; and in any case in which an infant is entitled
to such fund, property or income, the court or judge in vacation may,
upon its being made to appear that the infant is of sufficient age and
discretion to use the fund, property or income judiciously, cause the same
to be paid or delivered directly to the infant.