                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PETITION FOR EMANCIPATION (§ 16.1-331)

Any minor who has reached his sixteenth birthday and is residing in this
Commonwealth, or any parent or guardian of such minor, may petition the juvenile
and domestic relations district court for the county or city in which either the
minor or his parents or guardian resides for a determination that the minor
named in the petition be emancipated. The petition shall contain, in addition to
the information required by § 16.1-262, the gender of the minor and, if the
petitioner is not the minor, the name of the petitioner and the relationship of
the petitioner to the minor.

HISTORY: 1986, c. 506; 2016, cc. 457, 543; 2024, c. 737.