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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1990, chapter 831; in 1999, chapter 196<\/a>; in 2001, chapter 718<\/a>; in 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":82357,"section_number":"55.1-135","catch_line":"Joint ownership in real and personal property","order_by":null,"url":"\/55.1-135\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":244917,"object_type":"law","relational_id":63669,"identifier":"55.1-134","token":"55.1\/I\/1\/3\/55.1-134","url":"\/55.1-134\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-134\/","token":"55.1\/I\/1\/3\/55.1-134","dublin_core":{"Title":"Survivorship between joint tenants abolished","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-134","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> When any joint tenant dies, before or after the vesting of the estate, whether the estate is real or personal, or whether partition<\/span> could have been compelled or not, his part shall descend to his heirs, pass by devise, or go to his personal representative, subject to debts or distribution, as if he had been a tenant in common. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> This section shall not apply to any estate that joint tenants have as fiduciaries or to any real or personal property transferred to persons in their own right when it manifestly appears from the tenor of the instrument transferring such property or memorializing the existence of a chose in action that it was intended the part of the one dying should then belong to the others. This section does not affect the mode of proceeding on any joint judgment<\/span> or order<\/span> in favor of or on any contract<\/span> with two or more one of whom dies. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSURVIVORSHIP BETWEEN JOINT TENANTS ABOLISHED (\u00a7 55.1-134)\n\nA. When any joint tenant dies, before or after the vesting of the estate,\nwhether the estate is real or personal, or whether partition could have been\ncompelled or not, his part shall descend to his heirs, pass by devise, or go to\nhis personal representative, subject to debts or distribution, as if he had been\na tenant in common.\n\nB. This section shall not apply to any estate that joint tenants have as\nfiduciaries or to any real or personal property transferred to persons in their\nown right when it manifestly appears from the tenor of the instrument\ntransferring such property or memorializing the existence of a chose in action\nthat it was intended the part of the one dying should then belong to the others.\nThis section does not affect the mode of proceeding on any joint judgment or\norder in favor of or on any contract with two or more one of whom dies.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1919, \u00a7\u00a7 5159, 5160; Code 1950, \u00a7\u00a7 55-20, 55-21; 1990, c. 831;\n1999, c. 196; 2001, c. 718; 2019, c. 712.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}