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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74541</law_id><section_number>64.2-2502</section_number><catch_line>Property passing by will or intestate succession; surviving spouse</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="25">Acts Barring Property Rights</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">slayer</span> shall be deemed to have predeceased the <span class="dictionary">decedent</span> as to <span class="dictionary">property</span> that would have passed from the estate of the <span class="dictionary">decedent</span> to the <span class="dictionary">slayer</span> by intestate succession or that the <span class="dictionary">slayer</span> would have acquired by statutory right as the <span class="dictionary">decedent</span>&#x2019;s surviving spouse. An heir or distributee who establishes his kinship to the <span class="dictionary">decedent</span> by way of his kinship to a <span class="dictionary">slayer</span> shall be deemed to be claiming from the <span class="dictionary">decedent</span> and not through the <span class="dictionary">slayer</span>. <a id="paragraph-267885" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-2502/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The <span class="dictionary">slayer</span> shall be deemed to have predeceased the <span class="dictionary">decedent</span> as to <span class="dictionary">property</span> that would have passed to the <span class="dictionary">slayer</span> by the <span class="dictionary">will</span> of the <span class="dictionary">decedent</span>; however, the antilapse provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="When children or descendants of beneficiary to take estate or trust" href="/64.2-418/">64.2-418</a> are applicable to such <span class="dictionary">property</span>. <a id="paragraph-267886" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-2502/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1981, c. 469, &#xA7;&#xA7; 55-403, 55-404; 1990, c. 831; 2008, cc. 822, 830; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
