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Statutes > Virginia > Title-64-1 > Chapter-3 > 64-1-76§ 64.1-76. Residence of patient in nursing home, convalescent home, etc.
Where any person has because of advanced age or impaired health eithervoluntarily or involuntarily become a patient in a nursing home, aconvalescent home, or a similar institution, the place of legal residence ofsuch person shall be presumed to be the same as it was before he became sucha patient; provided, however, that such presumption may be rebutted bycompetent evidence.
(Code 1950, § 64-72.1; 1966, c. 330; 1968, c. 656.)
