When any person, entitled as a householder to the exemption provided for in § 34-4, ceases to be a householder or when any person removes from this Commonwealth, his right to claim or hold any estate as exempt under the provisions of this chapter, shall cease; but the lien of a judgment, or decree for money, rendered against a householder, and which is not paramount to the exemption provided for in this chapter, shall, as to the real estate held as exempt by him, attach to such only of that estate as he may be possessed of or entitled to at the time the exemption thereof ceases, as aforesaid, and until that time the lien shall not be enforced. Such judgments shall attach in the order of their priority, respectively, subject to the provisions of Article 2 (§ 64.2-309 et seq.) of Chapter 2 of Title 64.2.
Code 1919, § 6550; 1972, c. 825; 1974, c. 272; 1981, c. 580.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 34 - Homestead and Other Exemptions
Chapter 2 - Homestead Exemption of Householder
§ 34-4.1. Additional exemption for certain veterans
§ 34-4.2. Additional exemption for parents of dependent children
§ 34-5. To what debts exemptions shall not apply
§ 34-6. How exemption of real estate secured; form to claim exemption of real property
§ 34-7. Real estate, subject to encumbrances, may be set apart; if sold, how surplus disposed of
§ 34-8. Partition or sale of real estate held as exempt by joint tenant, etc.
§ 34-9. How real estate set apart as exempt may be encumbered or aliened
§ 34-13. Householder may set apart exemption in personal estate
§ 34-14. How set apart in personal estate; form to claim exemption of personal property
§ 34-17. When exemption may be set apart; garnished wages
§ 34-18. Rents and profits exempt; increase in value of estate set apart
§ 34-19. How excess in value set apart subjected to debts
§ 34-20. Proceeds of sale of estate exempt; how evidenced
§ 34-21. When householder's right to exemption is exhausted
§ 34-22. Waiver of exemption; its effect; form of waiver
§ 34-23. How claim enforced when exemption waived, etc.
§ 34-24. When the exemption ceases; lien of judgment or decree against householder
§ 34-25. When homestead waived judgments and executions to so state