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§ 20-95 Grounds for divorces from bed and board

A divorce from bed and board may be decreed for cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, willful desertion or abandonment.

History

The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1975, chapter 644.

Code 1919, § 5104; 1975, c. 644.

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Court Decisions

Roger G. Wyatt v. Kimberly S. Wyatt (COA, 10/01/19)
. . . COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA . . .
Arastoo Yazdani v. Soraya Sazegar (COA, 12/13/22)
. . . COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA . . .
Petachenko v. Petachenko (SCV, 11/26/86)
. . . 232 Va. 296 (1986) . . .
Goodman v. Hamman (COA, 09/27/94)
. . . Opinion . . .
Surbey v. Surbey (COA, 10/06/87)
. . . 5 Va.App. 119 (1987) . . .
. . . Neil Humphrey v. Carolyn Elizabeth Humphrey, Neil Humphrey . . . (Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 01/10/06)
. . . Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge MOTZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and . . .
Harmon v. Sadjadi (SCV, 01/12/07)
. . . 639 S.E.2d 294 (2007) . . .
. . . In Re: Apex Express Corporation Humboldt Express, . . . (Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 09/22/99)
. . . Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge MURNAGHAN wrote the . . .
Humboldt Express v. Apex Express (Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 09/22/99)
. . . PUBLISHED . . .
Hall v. Hall (COA, 02/13/90)
. . . 388 S.E.2d 669 (1990) . . .

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Amendment Attempts

HB1775: Divorce; adultery, filing, parties living separate and apart. (failed)
HB303: Divorce; adultery, filing, parties living separate and apart, report. (passed)
HB1406: Foreign divorce decrees; exercise of power by courts of the Commonwealth, non-domiciled party. (passed)