All real estate of any person who may hereafter die, as to which he may die intestate, or which, though he die testate, shall not by his will be charged with or devised subject to the payment of his debts, or which may remain after satisfying the debts with which it may be so charged, or subject to which it may be so devised, shall be assets for the payment of the decedent’s debts and all lawful demands against his estate, in the order in which the personal estate of a decedent is directed to be applied.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 44. Administration of Estates and Trusts
Article 8. Real Estate of Decedents
§44-8-2. Rents, Profits or Proceeds of Sale to Be Paid to Persons Entitled
§44-8-3. Real Estate to Be Assets for Payment of Debts
§44-8-4. By What Court Assets Administered
§44-8-5. Liability of Heir or Devisee for Real Estate Conveyed; When Such Real Estate Not Liable
§44-8-7. Suit to Subject Real Estate to Payment of Debts; Parties; Evidence
§44-8-8. Reference to Special Commissioner and Publication of Notice to Creditors in Such Suit
§44-8-9. Decree of Distribution; Claims Barred When
§44-8-10. No Costs Recoverable In, and Injunction Against, Second Suit