53.1-224 - Maintenance of prisoner's family; spouse's portion.

§ 53.1-224. Maintenance of prisoner's family; spouse's portion.

The committee shall allow, subject to the claims of creditors, a sufficientmaintenance out of the prisoner's estate for the prisoner's spouse andfamily, if any. The spouse shall be entitled, so long as the prisoner isconfined, to the profits of such portion of the prisoner's estate as thespouse would have if the prisoner had died intestate.

(Code 1950, § 53-308; 1982, c. 636.)