20-110 - Maintenance and support for a spouse to cease on remarriage. - Virginia Statutes

§ 20-110. Maintenance and support for a spouse to cease on remarriage.

If any former spouse to whom support and maintenance has been awarded shallthereafter marry, such support and maintenance shall cease as of the date ofsuch marriage. The spouse entitled to current support shall have anaffirmative duty to notify the payor spouse immediately of such remarriage.Failure of such spouse to notify the payor shall entitle the payor torestitution equal to the amount of any current support and maintenance paidafter the date of the remarriage, together with interest from the date of theremarriage and reasonable attorney's fees and costs.

(Code 1919, § 5111; 1944, p. 397; 1948, p. 593; 1975, c. 644; 2000, c. 221.)