CHAPTER 339

An Act to amend und reenact § 8-751, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to limited disbursements to certain incompetent persons and
infants.

[S 62]

Approved April 1, 1966

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, * tangible personal property or intangible personal
property or supervision of its administration, whether a suit be pending
therefor or not, that an incompetent person who has no guardian or com-
mittee, or an infant is entitled to a fund arising from the sale of lands for
a division or otherwise, or a fund, * tangible personal property or intangible
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 or intangible 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 or intangible personal property is not
more than * twenty-five hundred dollars, or whenever such incompetent
person or infant is entitled to receive payments of income, * tangible
personal property or intangible personal property and the amount of the
income payments is not more than * twenty-five hundred dollars in any one
year, or the value of the tangible personal property is not more than
* twenty-five hundred dollars, or the current market value of the intangible
personal property is not more than twenty-five hundred dollars, the court or
judge in vacation may, in its discretion, 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 person solely for the education, main-
tenance 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.