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Chapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 34-1. Definitions - As used in this title, unless the context requires a...
§ 34-2. Injunction restraining sale of exempted property or garnishment of wages - An injunction may be awarded to enjoin the sale of...
§ 34-3. Articles not exempt from taxes or levies or for their purchase price - The exemptions under §§ 34-4, 34-4.1, 34-26, 34-27, 34-29, and...
§ 34-3.1. Property specified in Bankruptcy Reform Act not exempt - No individual may exempt from the property of the estate...
Chapter 2 - Homestead Exemption of Householder
§ 34-4. Exemption created - Every householder shall be entitled, in addition to the property...
§ 34-4.1. Additional exemption for certain veterans - Every veteran residing in this Commonwealth having a service connected...
§ 34-4.2. Additional exemption for parents of dependent children - A. Where a parent supports a dependent minor child or...
§ 34-5. To what debts exemptions shall not apply - The property exemptions created under this Code shall not be...
§ 34-6. How exemption of real estate secured; form to claim exemption of real property - In order to secure the benefit of the exemptions of...
§ 34-7. Real estate, subject to encumbrances, may be set apart; if sold, how surplus disposed of - Such real estate may be selected and set apart as...
§ 34-8. Partition or sale of real estate held as exempt by joint tenant, etc. - If the estate so set apart be held by the...
§ 34-9. How real estate set apart as exempt may be encumbered or aliened - Real estate set apart as aforesaid may be sold and...
§ 34-10. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1981, c. 580.
§ 34-13. Householder may set apart exemption in personal estate - If the householder does not set apart any real estate...
§ 34-14. How set apart in personal estate; form to claim exemption of personal property - Such personal estate selected by the householder under § 34-4,...
§ 34-15. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1981, c. 580.
§ 34-17. When exemption may be set apart; garnished wages - A. The real or personal estate that a householder is...
§ 34-18. Rents and profits exempt; increase in value of estate set apart - The rents and profits of the property set apart shall...
§ 34-19. How excess in value set apart subjected to debts - Any creditor, against whom an exemption is claimed, may file...
§ 34-20. Proceeds of sale of estate exempt; how evidenced - The estate or property in which proceeds of sale are...
§ 34-21. When householder's right to exemption is exhausted - When an amount of property, whether real or personal, or...
§ 34-22. Waiver of exemption; its effect; form of waiver - If any person shall declare in a bond, bill, note...
§ 34-23. How claim enforced when exemption waived, etc. - In any proceeding for the enforcement of a claim, which...
§ 34-24. When the exemption ceases; lien of judgment or decree against householder - When any person, entitled as a householder to the exemption...
§ 34-25. When homestead waived judgments and executions to so state - Whenever a judgment or decree is rendered on an instrument...
Chapter 3 - Other Articles Exempt
§ 34-26. Poor debtor's exemption; exempt articles enumerated - In addition to the exemptions provided in Chapter 2 (§...
§ 34-27. Additional articles exempted to householder engaged in agriculture - If the householder be at the time actually engaged in...
§ 34-28. Deed of trust, etc., on such property void - Every deed of trust, mortgage or other writing or pledge...
§ 34-28.1. Personal injury and wrongful death actions exempt; exceptions - Except for liens created under Article 7.1 (§ 8.01-66.2 et...
§ 34-28.2. Spousal and child support exempt - The debtor's right to receive spousal or child support, to...
§ 34-28.3. Emergency relief payments exempt - A. For the purposes of this section, "emergency relief payment"...
Chapter 4 - Wages Exempt
§ 34-29. Maximum portion of disposable earnings subject to garnishment - (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (b1), the...
§ 34-30. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1970, c. 428.
§ 34-31. Revocation of such exemption - Any judgment creditor, upon having a garnishment summons issued upon...
§ 34-32. Illegal to garnish such exempt wages out of Commonwealth, etc. - No person shall institute or permit to be instituted proceedings...
§ 34-33. Exemption of wages of minor from garnishment process - The wages of a minor shall not be liable to...
§ 34-34. Certain retirement benefits exempt - A. For the purposes of this section: "Alternate payee" shall...