As used in this article:
"Beneficiary" means a person that receives property under a transfer on death deed.
"Designated beneficiary" means a person designated to receive property in a transfer on death deed.
"Joint owner" means an individual who owns property concurrently with one or more other individuals with a right of survivorship. "Joint owner" includes a joint tenant with the right of survivorship and tenant by the entirety with the right of survivorship. "Joint owner" does not include a tenant in common.
"Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.
"Property" means an interest in real property located in the Commonwealth that is transferable on the death of the owner.
"Transfer on death deed" means a deed or conveyance of a cooperative interest authorized under this article.
"Transferor" means an individual who makes a transfer on death deed.
2013, c. 390; 2022, c. 309.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 64.2 - Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries
Chapter 6 - Transfers without Qualification
§ 64.2-601. Payment or delivery of small asset by affidavit
§ 64.2-602. Payment or delivery of small asset valued at $25,000 or less without affidavit
§ 64.2-603. Discharge and release of payor
§ 64.2-604. Payment or delivery of small asset; funeral expenses
§ 64.2-605. Construction of article
§ 64.2-607. Transfer of evidences of indebtedness, securities, and stock held in decedents' estates
§ 64.2-608. Transfer of securities of nonresident decedents
§ 64.2-609. Money and personal property belonging to nonresident decedents
§ 64.2-610. When court may allow another to qualify on estate
§ 64.2-611. Disposition by sheriff of property when no person entitled thereto
§ 64.2-613. Registration in beneficiary form; sole or joint tenancy ownership; applicable law
§ 64.2-614. Origination of registration in beneficiary form
§ 64.2-615. Form of registration in beneficiary form; effect
§ 64.2-616. Ownership on death of owner
§ 64.2-617. Protection of registering entity
§ 64.2-618. Nontestamentary transfer on death
§ 64.2-619. Terms, conditions, and forms for registration; examples
§ 64.2-620. Nonprobate transfers on death
§ 64.2-624. Transfer on death deed authorized
§ 64.2-625. Transfer on death deed revocable
§ 64.2-626. Transfer on death deed nontestamentary
§ 64.2-627. Capacity of transferor
§ 64.2-629. Notice, delivery, acceptance, consideration not required
§ 64.2-630. Revocation by instrument authorized; revocation by act not permitted
§ 64.2-631. Effect of transfer on death deed during transferor's life
§ 64.2-632. Effect of transfer on death deed at transferor's death
§ 64.2-634. Liability for creditor claims and statutory allowances
§ 64.2-635. Optional form of transfer on death deed
§ 64.2-636. Optional form of revocation
§ 64.2-637. Uniformity of application and construction
§ 64.2-638. Relation to federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act