                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

JUDGMENTS TO BE DOCKETED AND INDEXED IN NEW NAMES OF JUDGMENT DEBTORS; HOW
EXECUTION MAY THEREAFTER ISSUE (§ 8.01-451)

Whenever there is a judgment docketed and indexed, as required by § 17.1-249,
and thereafter a judgment debtor whose name is so recorded changes his name,
whether by marriage, court order, by a voluntary assumption of a new name or
otherwise, the clerk of the court in which the judgment was obtained, upon
satisfactory proof that the judgment debtor has acquired a new name, shall
docket and index the judgment in the new name. Execution may thereafter issue
against the judgment debtor in the prior name, the new name, or both. The clerk
may require the submission by any party interested in the judgment or by his
duly authorized attorney or agent of a form similar to that set out in §
8.01-446.1 indicating that the judgment debtor has acquired a new name, and
stating the new name. Such form shall constitute satisfactory proof of the new
name. This section shall apply to all judgments obtained prior or subsequent to
the enactment hereof.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-378.1; 1950, p. 440; 1977, c. 617; 1998, c. 639.