10102390D
HOUSE BILL NO. 711
Offered January 13, 2010
Prefiled January 12, 2010
A BILL to amend and reenact §8.01-462 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to jurisdiction of court to enforce lien of judgment.
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Patron-- Peace
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §8.01-462 of the Code of Virginia is amended
and reenacted as follows:
§8.01-462. Jurisdiction of circuit court to enforce lien of
judgment; when it may decree sale.
Jurisdiction to
enforce the lien of a judgment shall be in equity. A. A circuit court may
decree the sale of real estate used as the owner's primary residence to enforce
a judgment lien encumbering it only if (i) the value of that real estate,
according to the most recent tax assessment, is more than the median assessed
value of single-family dwellings in
the jurisdiction where the real estate is situated; (ii) the owner of that real
estate has an annual household gross
income that exceeds the greater of $50,000 or the income limits based upon
family size for the respective metropolitan statistical area, annually
published by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for qualifying
federal housing assistance pursuant to §235
of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. §1715z);
and (iii) the judgment upon which the lien is based did not arise out of an
intentional tort or act of fraud committed by the owner of the real estate. For
the purposes of this section, "household gross income" shall be defined
according to the definition in §34-4.2.
B. If
it appear to the court that the rents and profits of all real estate subject to
the lien not prohibited from being sold by subsection A
will not satisfy the judgment in five years, the court may decree such real
estate, or any part thereof, to be sold, and the proceeds applied to the
discharge of the judgment.
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