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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 563 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1980 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 8 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 1987, chapter 605; in 1989, chapter 387; in 1998, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0117\">117<\/a>; in 2001, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?011+ful+CHAP0598\">598<\/a>; in 2002, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?021+ful+CHAP0220\">220<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?021+ful+CHAP0227\">227<\/a>; in 2012, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0614\">614<\/a>; in 2014, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0532\">532<\/a>; in 2025, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?251+ful+CHAP0148\">148<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":83611,"section_number":"64.2-1206","catch_line":"Settlement of fiduciaries' accounts","order_by":null,"url":"\/64.2-1206\/"},{"id":57415,"section_number":"64.2-1300","catch_line":"Inventories to be filed with commissioners of accounts","order_by":null,"url":"\/64.2-1300\/"}],"permalink":{"id":274921,"object_type":"law","relational_id":84852,"identifier":"64.2-1302","token":"64.2\/IV\/A\/13\/64.2-1302","url":"\/64.2-1302\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/64.2-1302\/","token":"64.2\/IV\/A\/13\/64.2-1302","dublin_core":{"Title":"Waiver of inventory and settlement for certain estates","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 64.2-1302","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>When a decedent&#8217;s personal estate passing by testate or intestate succession does not exceed $35,000 in <span class=\"dictionary\">value<\/span> and an heir, beneficiary, or <span class=\"dictionary\">creditor<\/span> whose claim exceeds the <span class=\"dictionary\">value<\/span> of the estate seeks qualification, the clerk of the <span class=\"dictionary\">circuit<\/span> <span class=\"dictionary\">court<\/span> shall <span class=\"dictionary\">waive<\/span> the inventory under \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Inventories to be filed with commissioners of accounts\" href=\"\/64.2-1300\/\">64.2-1300<\/a> and the <span class=\"dictionary\">settlement<\/span> under \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Settlement of fiduciaries&#039; accounts\" href=\"\/64.2-1206\/\">64.2-1206<\/a>. 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This section shall not apply if the decedent died\nowning any real estate over which the person seeking qualification would have\nthe power of sale.\n\nHISTORY: 1980, c. 563, \u00a7 26-12.3; 1987, c. 605; 1989, c. 387; 1998, c. 117;\n2001, c. 598; 2002, cc. 220, 227; 2012, c. 614; 2014, c. 532; 2025, c. 148.","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}}