The county court shall have jurisdiction of the probate of wills according to the following rules:
(a) In the county wherein the testator, at the time of his death, had a mansion house or known place of residence; or
(b) If he had no such house or place of residence, then in the county wherein any real estate devised thereby is situated; or
(c) If there be no real estate devised thereby, and the testator had no such house or place of residence, then in the county wherein he died, or in any county wherein he had any property at the time of his death; or
(d) If he died out of this state, his will or an authenticated copy thereof, may be admitted to probate in any county in this state, wherein there is property devised or bequeathed thereby.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 5. Production, Probate and Record of Wills
§41-5-2. Clerk to Notify Executor and Beneficiaries, and to Keep Will Safe in His Office
§41-5-3. Compelling Production of Will and Offer of Probate
§41-5-5. Procedure for Probate in Solemn Form
§41-5-7. Appeal From Probate Order -- When to Be Taken; Procedure
§41-5-9. Order as Bar to Suit in Equity
§41-5-10. Ex Parte Procedure to Probate; Appeal
§41-5-12. Impeachment or Establishment in Court -- by Person Under Disability or Nonresident
§41-5-13. Ancillary Administration; Probate or Recordation of Foreign Will
§41-5-14. When Depositions Admissible
§41-5-15. Proof of Will While Testator Living
§41-5-16. Statements of Particulars in Will Contests
§41-5-17. Probated Wills to Be Recorded and Indexed
§41-5-18. Recording in Other Counties; Duty of Personal Representative or Devisee
§41-5-19. Title of Bona Fide Purchasers of Real Estate From Heirs
§41-5-20. Title to Real Estate Devised by Wills; Rights of Devisees and Bona Fide Purchasers