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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81651</law_id><section_number>55.1-401</section_number><catch_line>Voluntary gifts, conveyances, assignments, transfers, or charges; void as to prior creditors</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>55.1-402</reference><reference>55.1-403</reference><reference>55.1-404</reference><reference>64.2-745.1</reference><reference>8.01-253</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="I">Property Conveyances</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Fraudulent and Voluntary Conveyances; Writings Necessary to be Recorded</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge that is not upon consideration deemed valuable in <span class="dictionary">law</span>, or that is upon consideration of marriage by an insolvent transferor or by a transferor who is thereby rendered insolvent, shall be void as to <span class="dictionary">creditors</span> whose debts were contracted at the time such gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge was made but shall not, on that account merely, be void as to <span class="dictionary">creditors</span> whose debts have been contracted, or as to purchasers who have purchased, after such gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge was made. Even though it is decreed to be void as to a prior <span class="dictionary">creditor</span>, because voluntary or upon consideration of marriage, it shall not, for that cause, be decreed to be void as to subsequent <span class="dictionary">creditors</span> or purchasers.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5185; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-81; 1988, c. 512; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
