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2009 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 28. STATE CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS
ARTICLE 5. THE PENITENTIARY.
§28-5-37 Maintenance of convict's wife and family.
§28-5-37. Maintenance of convict's wife and family. The committee of any convict who was, at the time of incarceration, a resident of this state shall allow (subject to the claims of creditors) a sufficient maintenance out of the convict's estate for his wife and family, if any; the wife to be entitled, as long as he is confined, to the profits of such portion of his estate as she would have if he had died intestate.
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