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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78351</law_id><section_number>20-102</section_number><catch_line>When not necessary to allege or prove offer of reconciliation</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="20">Domestic Relations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Divorce, Affirmation and Annulment</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>It shall not be necessary, in any suit for divorce from the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> of matrimony or from bed and board upon the ground of willful desertion or abandonment, to allege or prove an offer of reconciliation.</p></section></text><history>1938, p. 382; Michie Code 1942, &#xA7; 5106a; 1975, c. 644.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
