2010 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCES.
Chapter 22 - Acts Barring Property Rights (55-401 thru 55-415)
55-403 - Descent, distribution and statutory rights as survivor.
ยง 55-403. Descent, distribution and statutory rights as survivor.
The slayer shall be deemed to have predeceased the decedent as to property which would have passed from the estate of the decedent to the slayer under the statutes of descent and distribution or which would have been acquired by statutory right as surviving spouse. An heir or distributee who establishes his kinship to the decedent by way of his kinship to a slayer shall be deemed to be claiming from the decedent and not through the slayer.
(1981, c. 469; 1990, c. 831; 2008, cc. 822, 830.)
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