                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTRACTS OF, AND ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST, MARRIED PERSONS (§ 55.1-201)

A married person may contract and be contracted with and sue and be sued in the
same manner and with the same consequences as if he were unmarried, regardless
of the date on which the right or liability asserted by or against him accrued.
In an action by a married person to recover for a personal injury inflicted on
him, he may recover the entire damage sustained, including the personal injury
and expenses arising out of the injury, whether chargeable to him or his spouse,
notwithstanding that the spouse may be entitled to the benefit of his services
about domestic affairs and consortium, and any sum recovered therein shall be
chargeable with expenses arising out of the injury, including hospital, medical,
and funeral expenses, and any person, including the spouse, partially or
completely discharging such debts shall be reimbursed out of the sum recovered
in the action, whensoever paid, to the extent that such payment was justified by
services rendered or expenses incurred by the obligee, provided that written
notice of such claim for reimbursement, and the amount and items thereof, shall
be served on such married person and on the defendant prior to any settlement of
the sum recovered by him, and no action for such injury, expenses, or loss of
services or consortium shall be maintained by his spouse.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5134; 1932, p. 21; Code 1950, § 55-36; 1950, p. 460;
2019, c. 712.