Any husband, wife, parent or other head of a household residing in this state, or the infant children of deceased or insane parents, owning a homestead shall by operation of law have a homestead exemption therein to the value of $5,000, subject to the provisions of section forty-eight, article six of the Constitution of this state.
W. Va. Code § 38-9-1
Persons entitled to homestead; value
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 179 W. Va. 447 - Orlando v. Finance One of West Virginia, Inc. (1988)
Most recently applied in In Re Morrell (August 2008)
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