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§ 64.2-400. Separate writing identifying recipients of tangible personal property; liability for distribution; action to recover property - A. If a will refers to a written statement or...
§ 64.2-401. Who may make a will; what estate may be disposed of - A. Except as provided in subsection B, any individual may...
§ 64.2-402. Advertisements to draw wills prohibited; penalty - Any person that advertises any direct or indirect offer to...
§ 64.2-403. Execution of wills; requirements - A. No will shall be valid unless it is in...
§ 64.2-404. Writings intended as wills - A. Although a document, or a writing added upon a...
§ 64.2-404.1. Reformation of will to correct mistakes or achieve decedent's tax objectives - A. The court may reform the terms of a decedent's...
§ 64.2-405. Interested persons as competent witnesses - No person is incompetent to testify for or against a...
§ 64.2-406. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2016, c. 266, cl. 2.
§ 64.2-407. Will of personal estate of nonresidents - Notwithstanding the provisions of § 64.2-403, the will of a...
§ 64.2-408. Presumption of formal execution of wills made by persons in military service; will of personal estate of persons in military service and seamen - A. A will executed by a person while in the...
§ 64.2-409. Wills of living persons lodged for safekeeping with clerks of certain courts - A. A person or his attorney may, during the person's...
§ 64.2-410. Revocation of wills generally - A. If a testator with the intent to revoke a...
§ 64.2-411. Revival of wills after revocation - Any will or codicil, or any part thereof that has...
§ 64.2-412. Revocation by divorce or annulment; revival upon remarriage; no revocation by other change - A. For the purposes of this section, the terms "revocable,"...
§ 64.2-413. Effect of subsequent conveyance on will - Except for an act that results in the revocation of...
§ 64.2-414. When wills deemed to speak - A. A will shall be construed, with reference to the...
§ 64.2-415. How certain trust provisions, bequests, and devises to be construed; nonademption in certain cases - A. As used in this section: "Incapacitated" means impairment by...
§ 64.2-416. Devises, bequests, and distributions that fail; how to pass - A. For the purposes of this section, the terms "revocable,"...
§ 64.2-417. When advancement deemed satisfaction of devise or bequest - Property that a testator gave during his lifetime to a...
§ 64.2-418. When children or descendants of beneficiary to take estate or trust - A. For the purposes of this section, the terms "revocable,"...
§ 64.2-419. Provision for omitted children when no child living when will made - A. If a testator executes a will when the testator...
§ 64.2-420. Provision for omitted children when child living when will made - A. If a testator executes a will that makes provision...
§ 64.2-421. Construction of certain conditions of spouse's survivorship - A. If property passes from the decedent or is acquired...
§ 64.2-422. When omitted spouse to take intestate portion - If a testator fails to provide by will for a...
§ 64.2-423. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2016, c. 266, cl. 2.
§ 64.2-424. When direction to purchase annuity binding on legatee - If a testator directs in his will that an annuity...
§ 64.2-425. Interest on pecuniary legacies - A. Unless a contrary intent is expressed in or to...
§ 64.2-426. Testamentary additions to trusts by testator dying on or after July 1, 1994, and before July 1, 1999 - A. A devise or bequest, including the exercise of a...
§ 64.2-427. Testamentary additions to trusts by testator dying after June 30, 1999 - A. A will may validly devise or bequeath property, including...
§ 64.2-428. Distribution of assets by fiduciaries in satisfaction of pecuniary bequests or transfers in trust of pecuniary amount - A. Where a will or trust agreement authorizes or directs...
§ 64.2-429. Construction of trust provisions otherwise eligible for the election permitted under § 2056(b)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code - If any trust created under a will or trust agreement...
§ 64.2-430. Certain marital deduction formula clauses to be construed to refer to federal marital deduction allowable if decedent had died on December 31, 1981 - A. If property passes from the decedent or is acquired...
§ 64.2-431. Certain powers of appointment construed to refer to federal gift tax exclusion in effect on date of execution - If an instrument executed before September 12, 1981, provides for...
§ 64.2-432. Certain formula clauses to be construed to refer to federal estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws applicable to estates of decedents dying after December 31, 2009, and before January 1, 2011 - A. A will, trust, or other instrument of a decedent...
§ 64.2-433. Definitions - As used in this article: "Authorized person" and "person authorized...
§ 64.2-434. Validity - A. A will shall be valid as regards form, irrespective...
§ 64.2-435. Requirements - A. The will shall be made in writing. It need...
§ 64.2-436. Other points of form - A. The signatures shall be placed at the end of...
§ 64.2-437. Certificate - The authorized person shall attach to the will a certificate...
§ 64.2-438. Effect of certificate - In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the certificate...
§ 64.2-439. Revocation - The international will shall be subject to the ordinary rules...
§ 64.2-440. Source and construction - Sections 64.2-433 through 64.2-439 derive from Annex to Convention of...
§ 64.2-441. Persons authorized to act in relation to international will; eligibility; recognition by authorizing agency - Individuals who have been admitted to practice law before the...
§ 64.2-442. International will information registration - The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall establish a registry system...
§ 64.2-443. Jurisdiction of probate of wills - A. The circuit courts shall have jurisdiction of the probate...
§ 64.2-444. Clerks may probate wills - A. The clerk of any circuit court, or any duly...
§ 64.2-445. Appeal from order of clerk - Any person interested in the probate of the will may...
§ 64.2-446. Motion for probate; process against persons interested in probate - A. A person offering, or intending to offer, to a...
§ 64.2-447. Use of depositions - A. The deposition of a witness who subscribed a will...
§ 64.2-448. Complaint to impeach or establish a will; limitation of action; venue - A. A person interested in the probate of the will...
§ 64.2-449. Procedure in probate proceedings - A. In every probate proceeding, the court or clerk may...
§ 64.2-450. Probate of copy of will proved outside the Commonwealth; authenticated copy - When a will relative to an estate within the Commonwealth...
§ 64.2-451. Appointment of curator; when made; his duties - The court or the clerk of such court, or his...
§ 64.2-452. How will may be made self-proved; affidavits of witnesses - A will, at the time of its execution or at...
§ 64.2-453. How will may be made self-proved; acknowledgment of witnesses - A will, at the time of its execution or at...
§ 64.2-454. Appointment of administrator for prosecution of action for personal injury or wrongful death against or on behalf of estate of deceased resident or nonresident - An administrator may be appointed in any case in which...
§ 64.2-454.1. Will contest; presumption of undue influence - In any case contesting the validity of a decedent's will...
§ 64.2-455. Wills to be recorded; recording copies; effect; transfer to the Library of Virginia - A. Every will or authenticated copy admitted to probate by...
§ 64.2-456. Bona fide purchaser of real estate without notice of devise protected - The title of a bona fide purchaser without notice from...
§ 64.2-457. Bona fide purchaser of real estate without notice of devise protected; later will - The title of a bona fide purchaser without notice from...
§ 64.2-458. Bona fide purchaser of real estate without notice of devise protected; intestacy - The title of a bona fide purchaser without notice from...