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1996 SESSION

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(HJ69)

AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON RULES

    1. Page 1, introduced, line 29, after be

      strike

        the remainder of line 29 and all of lines 30 through 33

      insert

        requested to continue to study the issue of the award of rehabilitative alimony and the reservation of spousal support after the entry of a final decree of divorce. The Section shall (i) consider the desirability of allowing judges, in their discretion, to award rehabilitative alimony or spousal support to a spouse; (ii) examine the conditions under which such an award should be made and its relationship to the issue of the continued reservation of spousal support to a spouse; and (iii) determine the amendments necessary to the Code of Virginia to provide language granting such authorization; and, be it