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2024 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 55.1-601 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 55.1-601. Recording and indexing of certain documents showing changes of names.
A duly authenticated copy of a marriage license with the
certificate of the person celebrating the marriage or a duly authenticated copy
of a final order of divorce showing a change of name of a woman any
person shall be entitled to be recorded in the clerk's office in which
deeds are recorded of the county or city in which any land, or an interest in
any land, that is owned by such woman person lies and shall be
indexed by such clerk in the grantor and grantee indices in his office.