Code of Virginia - Title 64.1 Wills And Decedents' Estates - Chapter 1 Descent And Distribution

  • 64.1-01 Definition of "bona fide purchaser."
    As used in this title, "bona fide purchaser" means a purchaser of property for value who has acted in the transaction in good faith. Notice ...
  • 64.1-1 Course of descents generally
    When any person having title to any real estate of inheritance shall die intestate as to such estate, it shall descend and pass in parcenary ...
  • 64.1-2 How collaterals of half blood inherit
    Collaterals of the half blood shall inherit only half so much as those of the whole blood. (Code 1950, § 64-2; 1968, c. 656; 1986, ...
  • 64.1-3 When parties take per capita and when per stirpes
    Whenever those entitled to partition are all in the same degree of kindred to the intestate, they shall take per capita or by persons; and ...
  • 64.1-4 When alienage of ancestor not to bar
    In making title by descent, it shall be no bar to a party that any ancestor, whether living or dead, through whom he derives his ...
  • 64.1-5 Description unavailable
    Repealed by Acts 1978, c. 647. ...
  • 64.1-5.1 Meaning of child and related terms
    If, for purposes of this title or for determining rights in and to property pursuant to any deed, will, trust or other instrument, a relationship ...
  • 64.1-5.2 Evidence of paternity
    For the purposes of this title, evidence that a man is the father of a child born out of wedlock shall be clear and convincing ...
  • 64.1-6 Description unavailable
    Repealed by Acts 1978, c. 647. ...
  • 64.1-6.1 Persons related to decedent through two lines
    A person who is related to the decedent through two lines of relationship is entitled to only a single share based on the relationship which ...
  • 64.1-7 Description unavailable
    Repealed by Acts 1978, c. 647. ...
  • 64.1-7.1 Description unavailable
    Repealed by Acts 1994, c. 919. ...
  • 64.1-8 Description unavailable
    Repealed by Acts 1978, c. 647. ...
  • 64.1-8.1 Afterborn heirs
    Relatives of the decedent conceived before his death but born thereafter, and children resulting from assisted conception born after decedent's death who are determined to ...
  • 64.1-9 Description unavailable
    Repealed by Acts 1970, c. 568. ...
  • 64.1-10 Right of entry not affected by descent cast
    The right of entry on or action for land shall not be tolled or defeated by descent cast. (Code 1950, § 64-10; 1968, c. 656.) ...
  • 64.1-11 Distribution of personal estate
    When any person shall die intestate as to his personal estate or any part thereof, the surplus (subject to the provisions of Article 5.1 (§ ...
  • 64.1-12 Right of Commonwealth, if no other distributee
    To the Commonwealth shall accrue all the personal estate of every decedent, of which there is no other distributee. (Code 1950, § 64-12; 1968, c. ...
  • 64.1-13 When and how elective share may be claimed
    A. Whether or not (i) any provision for a husband or wife is made in the spouse's will, or (ii) the spouse dies intestate, the ...
  • 64.1-14 Extension of time until after determination of suit for construction of will or extent of augmente...
    If (i) a will is of doubtful import as to the amount or value of the property the husband or wife of the testator is ...
  • 64.1-15 Description unavailable
    Repealed by Acts 1970, c. 70. ...
  • 64.1-16 Rights upon claiming an elective share
    If claim for an elective share is made, the surviving spouse shall, if the decedent left surviving children or their descendants, have one-third of the ...
  • 64.1-16.1 Augmented estate; exclusions; valuation
    A. The augmented estate means the estate passing by testate or intestate succession, real and personal, after payment of allowances and exemptions elected under Article ...
  • 64.1-16.2 Charging spouse with gifts received; liability of others for balance of elective share; determinati...
    A. In determining the elective share, values included in the augmented estate which pass or have passed to the surviving spouse, or which would have ...
  • 64.1-16.3 Statutory rights barred by desertion or abandonment
    A. If a husband or wife willfully deserts or abandons his or her spouse and such desertion or abandonment continues until the death of the ...
  • 64.1-16.4 Rights in family residence
    Until the surviving spouse's rights in the principal family residence have been determined and satisfied by an agreement between the parties or a final court ...
  • 64.1-17 In division of estate of intestate, advancements to be brought into hotchpot
    When any descendant of a person dying intestate as to his estate, or any part thereof, shall have received from such intestate in his lifetime, ...
  • 64.1-18 Description unavailable
    Repealed by Acts 1981, c. 469. ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009