CHAPTER 465

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-750 and 8-751, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, relating to payment of small amounts to infants,
adults or incompetents without the intervention of an administrator,
guardian or committee.

[H 353]

Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia : a
1. That §§ 8-750 and 8-751, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and reenacted as follows:

8-750. Whenever there is accruing to any person, adult or infant,
any sum of money from any source, not exceeding * fifteen hundred
Jollars, or where any person, adult or infant, is entitled to payments under
Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of Title 63, the same may be paid into the court
of the county or corporation having jurisdiction in fiduciary matters in
which such fund accrued or arose. Such court may, by an order entered of
record, (1) pay such fund into the hands of such person to whom the same
iccrued, if such person be considered by such court competent to expend
und use the same in his behalf, or (2) pay such funds into the hands of
ome other person, who is considered competent to administer the same,
‘or the benefit of such person to whom the same accrued, without the in-
ervention of an administrator, guardian or committee, whether such per-
on reside within or without this State. The clerk of such court shall take
. receipt from the person to whom such money is paid, which shall show
he source from which the same was derived, the amount, to whom it be-
ongs, and when and to whom it was paid. Such receipt shall be signed and
icknowledged by the person so receiving such money, and entered of record
n the book in such clerk’s office in which the current fiduciary accounts
ire entered and indexed.
After such receipt is so executed and entered of record the person
owing such money shall be discharged of such obligation, as fully as if
the same had been paid to an administrator, guardian or committee.

No bond shall be required of the party to whom such money is paid
by the court.

§ 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 in-
competent person who has no guardian or committee or an infant is en-
titled 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 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 * fifteen hundred
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 * fifteen hundred dollars in
any one year, or the value of the personal property is not more than *
fifteen hundred dollars, the court or judge in vacation may, in its dis-
cretion, and without the intervention of a committee or guardian, cause
such fund, property 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 per-
son solely for the education, maintenance and support of the incompetent
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.