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2022 West Virginia Code
Chapter 44. Administration of Estates and Trusts
Article 9. Persons Presumed to Be Dead and Their Estates
- §44-9-1. When Person Presumed to Be Dead
- §44-9-1a. When Person in Military Service Presumed to Be Dead; Administration of Estate; When Spouse May Remarry
- §44-9-1b. When Person in Area Proclaimed to Be in a State of Emergency Presumed Dead
- §44-9-2. Jurisdiction of Estate of Supposed Decedent
- §44-9-3. Application for Probate or Administration, and Publication of Notice Thereof
- §44-9-4. Ancillary Letters on Estates of Nonresidents Supposed to Be Dead
- §44-9-5. Evidence on Such Application; Record Thereof
- §44-9-6. Order Declaring Presumption Established; Probate of Will; Letters Testamentary or of Administration; Their Effect; Death Certificate Issued Upon Order
- §44-9-7. Powers of Clerk of County Commission
- §44-9-8. Personal Representative to Institute Suit to Settle Such Estate
- §44-9-9. Publication in Such Suit
- §44-9-10. Procedure When Supposed Decedent Fails to Appear
- §44-9-11. Distribution of Estate; Refunding Bonds
- §44-9-12. Vacation of Prior Proceedings on Reappearance of Supposed Decedent
- §44-9-13. Final Accounting of Personal Representative; Effect of His Acts; Title of Purchasers and Distributees
- §44-9-14. Substitution of Supposed Decedent in Pending Actions; Opening Judgments; Effect of Judgment After Substitution
- §44-9-15. When Laws Relating to Wills and Estates Generally to Govern
- §44-9-16. Costs, by Whom Payable
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