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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74910</law_id><section_number>16.1-272.1</section_number><catch_line>Claim of error to be raised within one year</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="16.1">Courts Not of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="11">Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Transfer and Waiver</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In addition to any other curative provisions, <span class="dictionary">waivers</span>, procedural <span class="dictionary">defaults</span>, or requirements for timely objection, including but not limited to those in subsection J of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Jurisdiction; consent for abortion" href="/16.1-241/">16.1-241</a>, subsection E of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Trial in circuit court; preliminary hearing; direct indictment; remand" href="/16.1-269.1/">16.1-269.1</a> and subsection E of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Circuit court hearing; jury; termination of juvenile court jurisdiction; objections and appeals" href="/16.1-269.6/">16.1-269.6</a>, any claim of error or defect under this chapter, jurisdictional or otherwise, that is not raised within one year from the date of final <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> or one year from the effective date of this act, whichever is later, shall not constitute a ground for relief in any judicial proceeding.</p></section></text><history>2000, c. 418.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
