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2016 SESSION

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HB 595 Married women; property rights.

Introduced by: Marcus B. Simon | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Property rights of married women. Repeals obsolete provisions in the Code of Virginia relating to property rights of married women. The bill retains provisions relating to (i) a spouse's responsibility for the other spouse's contract or tort liability to a third party and (ii) the abolishment of separate estates, by relocating those provisions to appropriate titles in the Code.

FULL TEXT

• 01/11/16  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101372D  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/11/16  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101372D
• 01/11/16  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/14/16  House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
• 01/27/16  House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
• 02/16/16  House: Left in Courts of Justice