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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70440</law_id><section_number>64.2-2201</section_number><catch_line>Requirement of survival by 120 hours for statutory rights</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="V">Provisions Applicable to Probate and Nonprobate Transfers</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="22">Uniform Simultaneous Death Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Except as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Exceptions" href="/64.2-2205/">64.2-2205</a>, if the (i) title to property, (ii) devolution of property, or (iii) right to elect an interest in property, an augmented estate share or exempt property, or homestead or family allowance depends upon an individual surviving another, an individual who is not established by clear and convincing <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> to have survived the other individual by 120 hours is deemed to have predeceased the other. However, this section does not apply if its application would result in a taking of an intestate estate by the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>1994, c. 475, &#xA7; 64.1-104.2; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
