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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72670</law_id><section_number>64.2-2104</section_number><catch_line>Taking testimony in another state</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="64.2">Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Fiduciaries and Guardians</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="D">Guardianship of Incapacitated Persons</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="21">Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> In a guardianship or <span class="dictionary">protective proceeding</span>, in addition to other procedures that may be available, <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> of a <span class="dictionary">witness</span> who is located in another <span class="dictionary">state</span> may be offered by <span class="dictionary">deposition</span> or other means allowable in the Commonwealth for <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> taken in another <span class="dictionary">state</span>. The <span class="dictionary">court</span> on its own <span class="dictionary">motion</span> may <span class="dictionary">order</span> that the <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> of a <span class="dictionary">witness</span> be taken in another <span class="dictionary">state</span> and may prescribe the manner in which and the terms upon which the <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> is to be taken. <a id="paragraph-261591" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-2104/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> In a guardianship or <span class="dictionary">protective proceeding</span>, a <span class="dictionary">court</span> in the Commonwealth may permit a <span class="dictionary">witness</span> located in another <span class="dictionary">state</span> to be deposed or to testify by telephone or audiovisual or other electronic means. A <span class="dictionary">court</span> in the Commonwealth shall cooperate with the <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the other <span class="dictionary">state</span> in designating an appropriate location for the <span class="dictionary">deposition</span> or <span class="dictionary">testimony</span>. <a id="paragraph-261592" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-2104/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Documentary <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> transmitted from another <span class="dictionary">state</span> to a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the Commonwealth by technological means that do not produce an original writing may not be excluded from <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> on an objection based on the best <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> rule. <a id="paragraph-261593" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-2104/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2011, c. 518, &#xA7; 37.2-1036; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
