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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86281</law_id><section_number>55.1-209</section_number><catch_line>Equitable separate estates abolished</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>The estate known as the <span class="dictionary">equitable</span> separate estate no longer exists and any language in any writing, whenever executed, that purports to convey real property to a person as an <span class="dictionary">equitable</span> separate estate has no legal or <span class="dictionary">equitable</span> significance after January 1, 1991, except as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Dower or curtesy abolished" href="/64.2-301/">64.2-301</a> or <a class="law" title="Dower or curtesy abolished" href="/64.2-308.2/">64.2-308.2</a>.</p></section></text><history>1992, cc. 617, 647, &#xA7; 55-47.01; 2016, cc. 187, 269; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
