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CHAPTER 639 An Act to amend and reenact § 8.01-451 of the Code of Virginia, relating to docketing of judgments; name change of debtor. [S 343] Approved April 16, 1998

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8.01-451 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8.01-451. Judgments to be docketed and indexed in new names of judgment debtors; how execution may thereafter issue.

Whenever there be is a judgment docketed and indexed, as required by § 17-79, and thereafter a judgment debtor whose name is so recorded change changes his name, whether by marriage, court order, by a voluntary assumption of a new name or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court in which the judgment was obtained, upon satisfactory proof that the judgment debtor has acquired a new name, to shall docket and index the judgment in the new name. Execution may thereafter issue against the judgment debtor in the prior name, the new name, or both. Affidavit The clerk may require the submission by any party interested in the judgment or by his duly authorized attorney or agent of a form similar to that set out in § 8.01-446.1 indicating that the judgment debtor has acquired a new name, and stating the new name. Such form, shall constitute satisfactory proof of the new name. This section shall apply to all judgments obtained prior or subsequent to the enactment hereof.