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§ 64.2-308.17 Statutory rights barred by desertion or abandonment

If a parent willfully deserts or abandons his minor or incapacitated child and such desertion or abandonment continues until the death of the child, the parent shall be barred of all interest in the child’s estate by intestate succession.

History

This law was first created in 2016. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 187 and 269 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

2016, cc. 187, 269.

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