Virginia House Bill 711 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-16 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Jurisdiction of court to enforce lien of judgment. Provides that a circuit court may decree the sale of real estate used as the owner's primary residence to enforce a judgment lien encumbering it only if (i) the value of that real estate is more than the median assessed value of single-family dwellings in the jurisdiction where the real estate is situated; (ii) the owner of that real estate has an annual household gross income that exceeds the greater of $50,000 or the income limits based upon family size for the respective metropolitan statistical area; and (iii) the judgment upon which the lien is based did not arise out of an intentional tort or act of fraud committed by the owner of the real estate.

Judgment; circuit court may decree sale of real estate used as owner's primary residence to enforce.

Del. Christopher Peace [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-16		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2010-02-01		House: Subcommittee recommends striking from docket by voice vote
2010-01-19		House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
2010-01-12		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2010-01-12		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10102390D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	462	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+sum+HB711
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+HB711+hil