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2021 Code of Virginia
Title 64.2 - Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries
Chapter 4 - Wills
Article 1. Requisites and Execution
- § 64.2-400. Separate writing identifying recipients of tangible personal property; liability for distribution; action to recover property
- § 64.2-401. Who may make a will; what estate may be disposed of
- § 64.2-402. Advertisements to draw wills prohibited; penalty
- § 64.2-403. Execution of wills; requirements
- § 64.2-404. Writings intended as wills
- § 64.2-404.1. Reformation of will to correct mistakes or achieve decedent's tax objectives
- § 64.2-405. Interested persons as competent witnesses
- § 64.2-406. Repealed
- § 64.2-407. Will of personal estate of nonresidents
- § 64.2-408. Presumption of formal execution of wills made by persons in military service; will of personal estate of persons in military service and seamen
- § 64.2-409. Wills of living persons lodged for safekeeping with clerks of certain courts
Article 2. Revocation and Effect
- § 64.2-410. Revocation of wills generally
- § 64.2-411. Revival of wills after revocation
- § 64.2-412. Revocation by divorce or annulment; revival upon remarriage; no revocation by other change
- § 64.2-413. Effect of subsequent conveyance on will
Article 3. Construction and Effect
- § 64.2-414. When wills deemed to speak
- § 64.2-415. How certain trust provisions, bequests, and devises to be construed; nonademption in certain cases
- § 64.2-416. Devises, bequests, and distributions that fail; how to pass
- § 64.2-417. When advancement deemed satisfaction of devise or bequest
- § 64.2-418. When children or descendants of beneficiary to take estate or trust
- § 64.2-419. Provision for omitted children when no child living when will made
- § 64.2-420. Provision for omitted children when child living when will made
- § 64.2-421. Construction of certain conditions of spouse's survivorship
- § 64.2-422. When omitted spouse to take intestate portion
- § 64.2-423. Repealed
- § 64.2-424. When direction to purchase annuity binding on legatee
- § 64.2-425. Interest on pecuniary legacies
- § 64.2-426. Testamentary additions to trusts by testator dying on or after July 1, 1994, and before July 1, 1999
- § 64.2-427. Testamentary additions to trusts by testator dying after June 30, 1999
- § 64.2-428. Distribution of assets by fiduciaries in satisfaction of pecuniary bequests or transfers in trust of pecuniary amount
- § 64.2-429. Construction of trust provisions otherwise eligible for the election permitted under ยง 2056(b)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code
- § 64.2-430. Certain marital deduction formula clauses to be construed to refer to federal marital deduction allowable if decedent had died on December 31, 1981
- § 64.2-431. Certain powers of appointment construed to refer to federal gift tax exclusion in effect on date of execution
- § 64.2-432. Certain formula clauses to be construed to refer to federal estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws applicable to estates of decedents dying after December 31, 2009, and before January 1, 2011
Article 4. Uniform International Wills Act
- § 64.2-433. Definitions
- § 64.2-434. Validity
- § 64.2-435. Requirements
- § 64.2-436. Other points of form
- § 64.2-437. Certificate
- § 64.2-438. Effect of certificate
- § 64.2-439. Revocation
- § 64.2-440. Source and construction
- § 64.2-441. Persons authorized to act in relation to international will; eligibility; recognition by authorizing agency
- § 64.2-442. International will information registration
Article 5. Probate
- § 64.2-443. Jurisdiction of probate of wills
- § 64.2-444. Clerks may probate wills
- § 64.2-445. Appeal from order of clerk
- § 64.2-446. Motion for probate; process against persons interested in probate
- § 64.2-447. Use of depositions
- § 64.2-448. Complaint to impeach or establish a will; limitation of action; venue
- § 64.2-449. Procedure in probate proceedings
- § 64.2-450. Probate of copy of will proved outside the Commonwealth; authenticated copy
- § 64.2-451. Appointment of curator; when made; his duties
- § 64.2-452. How will may be made self-proved; affidavits of witnesses
- § 64.2-453. How will may be made self-proved; acknowledgment of witnesses
- § 64.2-454. Appointment of administrator for prosecution of action for personal injury or wrongful death against or on behalf of estate of deceased resident or nonresident
Article 6. Recordation and Effect
- § 64.2-455. Wills to be recorded; recording copies; effect; transfer to the Library of Virginia
- § 64.2-456. Bona fide purchaser of real estate without notice of devise protected
- § 64.2-457. Bona fide purchaser of real estate without notice of devise protected; later will
- § 64.2-458. Bona fide purchaser of real estate without notice of devise protected; intestacy
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