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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76297</law_id><section_number>55.1-208</section_number><catch_line>How estate of a married person to pass at death</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Property Conveyances</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Property Rights of Married Persons</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When a married person, having title to any estate, dies intestate, such estate, or any part of such estate, shall pass according to the provisions of Chapter 2 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Course of descents generally; right of Commonwealth if no other heir" href="/64.2-200/">64.2-200</a> et seq.) of Title 64.2, subject to his debts.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5138; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-46; 1990, c. 831; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
