                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MAINTENANCE OF PRISONER&#8217;S FAMILY; SPOUSE&#8217;S PORTION (§ 53.1-224)

The committee shall allow, subject to the claims of creditors, a sufficient
maintenance out of the prisoner&#8217;s estate for the prisoner&#8217;s spouse
and family, if any. The spouse shall be entitled, so long as the prisoner is
confined, to the profits of such portion of the prisoner&#8217;s estate as the
spouse would have if the prisoner had died intestate.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-308; 1982, c. 636.