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Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Domestic Relations, Peter N. Swisher
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Domestic Relations, Peter N. Swisher
University of Richmond Law Review
The Virginia Premarital Agreement Act was reenacted during the 1986 legislative session of the Virginia General Assembly and became law effective July 1, 1986.
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Property, W. Wade Berryhill
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Property, W. Wade Berryhill
University of Richmond Law Review
The 1986 General Assembly may be remembered as much for what it did not do as for what it did. Carried over into the next session was House Bill 810, which would have abolished dower and curtesy in favor of a statutory share for the surviving spouse in the deceased spouse's estate. Of course, passage of this bill would have ushered in significant change in the practice of decedents' estates. Significantly, passage of the bill also would have legislatively overruled recent judicial and legislative activity which has created the sole and separate estate, for both female and male, allowing circumvention …