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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74272</law_id><section_number>55.1-2010</section_number><catch_line>Regrouping or merger of estates with principal property</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>55.1-2011</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Common Interest Communities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="20">Horizontal Property Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Management of Horizontal Property Regimes</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>All of the <span class="dictionary">co-owners</span> or such lesser percentage as may be authorized in the <span class="dictionary">master deed</span>, or the sole owner of a building constituted into a horizontal <span class="dictionary">property</span> regime, may by deed <span class="dictionary">waive</span> this regime and regroup, <span class="dictionary">amend</span> the <span class="dictionary">master deed</span>, or merge the records of the filial estates with the principal <span class="dictionary">property</span>, provided that the filial estates are unencumbered, or if they are encumbered, that the <span class="dictionary">creditors</span> on whose behalf the encumbrances are recorded accept as security the undivided portions of the <span class="dictionary">property</span> owned by the debtors.</p></section></text><history>1962, c. 627, &#xA7; 9, &#xA7; 55-79.9; 1966, c. 683; 1973, c. 374; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
