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This law was first created in 1994. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 475<\/a> 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. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 2012, chapter 614<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":55065,"section_number":"64.2-2205","catch_line":"Exceptions","order_by":null,"url":"\/64.2-2205\/"}],"permalink":{"id":275745,"object_type":"law","relational_id":65643,"identifier":"64.2-2203","token":"64.2\/V\/22\/64.2-2203","url":"\/64.2-2203\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/64.2-2203\/","token":"64.2\/V\/22\/64.2-2203","dublin_core":{"Title":"Co-owners with right of survivorship; requirement of survival by 120 hours","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 64.2-2203","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Except as provided in \u00a7 64.2-2205<\/a>, if (i) it is not established by clear and convincing evidence<\/span> that one of two co-owners with right of survivorship<\/span> survived the other co-owner by 120 hours, one-half of the property passes as if one had survived by 120 hours and one-half as if the other had survived by 120 hours and (ii) there are more than two co-owners and it is not established by clear and convincing evidence<\/span> that at least one of them survived the others by 120 hours, the property passes in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of co-owners.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCO-OWNERS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP; REQUIREMENT OF SURVIVAL BY 120 HOURS (\u00a7\n64.2-2203)\n\nExcept as provided in \u00a7 64.2-2205, if (i) it is not established by clear and\nconvincing evidence that one of two co-owners with right of survivorship\nsurvived the other co-owner by 120 hours, one-half of the property passes as if\none had survived by 120 hours and one-half as if the other had survived by 120\nhours and (ii) there are more than two co-owners and it is not established by\nclear and convincing evidence that at least one of them survived the others by\n120 hours, the property passes in the proportion that one bears to the whole\nnumber of co-owners.\n\nHISTORY: 1994, c. 475, \u00a7 64.1-104.4; 2012, c. 614.","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}}