                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN THE EXEMPTION CEASES; LIEN OF JUDGMENT OR DECREE AGAINST HOUSEHOLDER (§
34-24)

When any person, entitled as a householder to the exemption provided for in §
34-4, ceases to be a householder or when any person removes from this
Commonwealth, his right to claim or hold any estate as exempt under the
provisions of this chapter, shall cease; but the lien of a judgment, or decree
for money, rendered against a householder, and which is not paramount to the
exemption provided for in this chapter, shall, as to the real estate held as
exempt by him, attach to such only of that estate as he may be possessed of or
entitled to at the time the exemption thereof ceases, as aforesaid, and until
that time the lien shall not be enforced. Such judgments shall attach in the
order of their priority, respectively, subject to the provisions of Article 2
(§ 64.2-309 et seq.) of Chapter 2 of Title 64.2.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 6550; 1972, c. 825; 1974, c. 272; 1981, c. 580.