2015 Code of Virginia
Title 20 - Domestic Relations
§ 20-121.01. Decree of divorce from bonds of matrimony without decree from bed and board

VA Code § 20-121.01 (2015) What's This?

In any case where willful desertion or cruelty is the ground for divorce and the bill of complaint prays for a divorce from bed and board the court may enter a decree of divorce from the bonds of matrimony without the entry of a decree from bed and board if the statutory period, as set out in ยง 20-121, has elapsed prior to the entry of said decree and if the court shall be of the opinion that no reconciliation has taken place, or is probable.

1956, c. 93; 1970, c. 538; 1975, c. 644.

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