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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session
HB1775Divorce; adultery, filing, parties living separate and apart.
Direction
Custody & supportalimonyAI label
↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 80%
Removes the requirement that a party prove another fault ground to avoid lessening spousal support obligations in a no-fault divorce, so support obligations can end more easily without proving fault.
A decree of divorce granted pursuant to this subdivision (9) shall in no way lessen any obligation any party may otherwise have to support the spouse unless such party shall prove that there exists in the favor of such party some other ground of divorce under this section or § 20-95.
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Custody & supportotherAI label
=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 70%
Shortens the no-fault separation period for divorce from one year to six months when there is a separation agreement and no minor children, allowing faster divorce without changing custody, support calculation or alimony rules directly.
In any case where the parties have entered into a separation agreement and there are no minor children either born of the parties, born of either party and adopted by the other or adopted by both parties, a divorce may be decreed on application if and when they have lived separately and apart without cohabitation and without interruption for six months.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends divorce grounds and procedures, shortening no-fault separation periods in some cases, removing a bar related to insanity, and changing language on spousal support obligations in no-fault divorces. It touches custody-support via the alimony/support provision (which eases ending obligations without proving fault) and procedural changes to divorce filing/separation that do not alter custody, parenting time, support amounts, paternity or alimony rules themselves. No provisions address firearms, transgender issues, abortion, or immigration enforcement.
Related bills
HB303Divorce; adultery, filing, parties living separate and apart, report.↔Mixed rights of the paying or noncustodial parent=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Law
HB601Exemptions from garnishment; minimum protected account balance, certain benefit payments.↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parent=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Law
SB301Exemptions from garnishment; minimum protected account balance, certain benefit payments.↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parent↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Law
HB1382Members of U.S. Armed Forces, etc.; domicile & residential requirements for annulment, etc.=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Law
Hearings and calendar
2025-01-15 00:00 · Hearing · House Courts of Justice - Civil Committee Hearing House North Subcommittee Room - 200
2025-01-17 00:00 · Hearing · House Courts of Justice Committee Hearing House Committee Room C - 206
2025-02-12 19:00 · Hearing · Senate Courts of Justice Hearing Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
Votes
Date
Chamber
Motion
Yea-Nay
2025-01-15
H
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
7-1
Passed
2025-01-17
H
Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 6-N)
16-6
Passed
2025-01-23
H
Read third time and passed House (59-Y 38-N)
59-38
Passed
2025-02-12
S
Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
12-0
Passed
2025-02-14
S
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)