Any person making a report pursuant to § 63.2-1509, a complaint pursuant to § 63.2-1510, or who takes a child into custody pursuant to § 63.2-1517, or who participates in a judicial proceeding resulting therefrom shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability in connection therewith, unless it is proven that such person acted in bad faith or with malicious intent.
Va. Code Ann. § 63.2-1512
Immunity of person making report, etc., from liability
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Wolf v. Fauquier County Board of Supervisors (2009)
Most recently applied in Brian Davison v. Deborah Rose (December 2021)
1975, c. 341, § 63.1-248.5; 1988, c. 686; 2002, c. 747.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.