Bill Text: VA HB2343 | 2023 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Mutual liability for necessaries; furnishing of health care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-04-12 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0798) [HB2343 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2023-HB2343-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §55.1-202 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§55.1-202. Spouse not responsible for other spouse's contracts, etc.; mutual liability for necessaries; exception; 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. For the purposes of this section, liability shall not be imposed upon one spouse for health care furnished to the patient spouse who predeceases the nonpatient spouse. 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 entirety or that was held by them as tenants by the entirety prior to the death of either spouse where the tenancy terminated as a result of the death of either spouse.
2. That §8.01-220.2 of the Code of Virginia is repealed.
