Bill Text: VA HB229 | 2012 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Doctrine of necessaries; lien not to attach on residence held by spouses as tenants by entireties.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-01 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0045) [HB229 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2012-HB229-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 229 Offered January 11, 2012 Prefiled January 10, 2012 A BILL to amend and reenact §55-37 of the Code of Virginia, relating to doctrine of necessaries. ---------- Patron-- Habeeb ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That §55-37 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§55-37. Spouse not responsible for other spouse's contracts, etc.; mutual liability for necessaries; responsibility of personal representative.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, a spouse shall not be responsible for the other spouse's contract or tort liability to a third party, whether such liability arose before or after the marriage. The doctrine of necessaries as it existed at common law shall apply equally to both spouses, except where they are permanently living separate and apart, but shall in no event create any liability between such spouses as to each other. No lien arising out of a judgment under this section shall attach to the judgment debtors' principal residence held by them as tenants by the entireties or that was held by them as tenants by the entireties immediately prior to the death of either spouse.