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Code of Virginia
Title 20. Domestic Relations
Chapter 6. Divorce, Affirmation and Annulment
7/6/2026

§ 20-95. Grounds for divorces from bed and board.

A divorce from bed and board may be decreed for cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, willful desertion, abandonment, or on the application of either party upon the parties living separate and apart with the intent of at least one of the parties to remain separate and apart permanently. No waiting period is required for the filing of a divorce from bed and board pursuant to this section, but such divorce may be decreed only in accordance with the provisions of § 20-91.

Code 1919, § 5104; 1975, c. 644; 2026, c. 918.

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