CODE OF VIRGINIA

MAINTENANCE OF PRISONER’S FAMILY; SPOUSE’S PORTION (§ 53.1-224)

The committee shall allow, subject to the claims of creditors, a sufficient
maintenance out of the prisoner’s estate for the prisoner’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’s estate as the
spouse would have if the prisoner had died intestate.

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