Code of Virginia - Title 32.1 Health - Section 32.1-291.19 Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity...

§ 32.1-291.19. Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity...

A. A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:

1. This Act;

2. The laws of the state or country where it was executed; or

3. The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence, or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.

B. If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.

C. A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.

(2007, cc. 92, 907.)

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