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Statutes > Virginia > Title-34 > Chapter-2 > 34-24§ 34-24. When the exemption ceases; lien of judgment or decree againsthouseholder.
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 thisCommonwealth, his right to claim or hold any estate as exempt under theprovisions of this chapter, shall cease; but the lien of a judgment, ordecree for money, rendered against a householder, and which is not paramountto the exemption provided for in this chapter, shall, as to the real estateheld as exempt by him, attach to such only of that estate as he may bepossessed of or entitled to at the time the exemption thereof ceases, asaforesaid, and until that time the lien shall not be enforced. Such judgmentsshall attach in the order of their priority, respectively, subject to theprovisions of Article 5.1 (§ 64.1-151.1 et seq.) of Chapter 6 of Title 64.1.
(Code 1919, § 6550; 1972, c. 825; 1974, c. 272; 1981, c. 580.)
