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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72684</law_id><section_number>34-13</section_number><catch_line>Householder may set apart exemption in personal estate</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>34-14</reference><reference>34-21</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="34">Homestead and Other Exemptions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Homestead Exemption of Householder</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If the <span class="dictionary">householder</span> does not set apart any real estate as before provided, or if what he does or has so set apart is not of the total value which he is entitled to hold <span class="dictionary">exempt</span>, he may, in addition to the property or estate which he is entitled to hold <span class="dictionary">exempt</span> under &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Poor debtor's exemption; exempt articles enumerated" href="/34-26/">34-26</a>, <a class="law" title="Additional articles exempted to householder engaged in agriculture" href="/34-27/">34-27</a>, <a class="law" title="Maximum portion of disposable earnings subject to garnishment" href="/34-29/">34-29</a>, and <a class="law" title="Homestead allowance" href="/64.2-311/">64.2-311</a>, in the first case select and set apart by the writing required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="How set apart in personal estate; form to claim exemption of personal property" href="/34-14/">34-14</a> to be held by him as <span class="dictionary">exempt</span> under &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Exemption created" href="/34-4/">34-4</a> and <a class="law" title="Additional exemption for certain veterans" href="/34-4.1/">34-4.1</a>, so much of his personal estate as shall not exceed the total value which he is entitled to hold <span class="dictionary">exempt</span> and, in the latter case, personal estate, the value of which, when added to the value of the real estate set apart, does not exceed such total value.
		For the purposes of this section, the <span class="dictionary">exemption</span> under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Exemption created" href="/34-4/">34-4</a>, or unused portion thereof, that is limited by such section to real or personal property used as the principal residence of the <span class="dictionary">householder</span> or the <span class="dictionary">householder</span>&#x2019;s dependents may only be used for such property, and its proceeds as provided under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Proceeds of sale of estate exempt; how evidenced" href="/34-20/">34-20</a>, and no other property.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 6539; 1975, c. 466; 1980, c. 167; 1990, c. 942; 1993, c. 150; 2024, c. 656.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
