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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57764</law_id><section_number>64.2-308.10</section_number><catch_line>Sources from which elective share payable</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>64.2-308.11</reference><reference>64.2-308.12</reference><reference>64.2-308.13</reference></referred_to_by><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="II">Wills and Decedents' Estates</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Rights of Married Persons</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1.1">Elective Share of Surviving Spouse of Decedent Dying on or After January 1, 2017</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> In a proceeding for an elective share, the following are applied first to satisfy the elective-share amount and to reduce or eliminate any contributions due from the decedent&#x2019;s probate estate and recipients of the decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to others: <a id="paragraph-211549" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.10/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Amounts excluded from the augmented estate under subdivision B 1 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Exclusions, valuation, and overlapping application" href="/64.2-308.9/">64.2-308.9</a> that passed to the surviving spouse and amounts that passed to the surviving spouse at the decedent&#x2019;s death pursuant to the decedent&#x2019;s exercise of a power of appointment over property not included in the augmented estate; <a id="paragraph-211550" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.10/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Amounts included in the augmented estate under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Decedent's net probate estate" href="/64.2-308.5/">64.2-308.5</a> that pass or have passed to the surviving spouse by testate or intestate succession and amounts included in the augmented estate under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Decedent's non-probate transfers to the surviving spouse" href="/64.2-308.7/">64.2-308.7</a>; and <a id="paragraph-211551" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.10/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The marital property portion of amounts included in the augmented estate under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Surviving spouse's property and non-probate transfers to others" href="/64.2-308.8/">64.2-308.8</a>. <a id="paragraph-211552" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.10/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The marital property portion under subdivision A 3 is computed by multiplying the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of the amounts included in the augmented estate under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Surviving spouse's property and non-probate transfers to others" href="/64.2-308.8/">64.2-308.8</a> by the percentage of the augmented estate set forth in the schedule in subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Composition of the augmented estate; marital property portion" href="/64.2-308.4/">64.2-308.4</a> appropriate to the length of time the spouse and the decedent were married to each other. <a id="paragraph-211553" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.10/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> If, after the application of subsection A, the elective share amount is not fully satisfied, amounts included in the decedent&#x2019;s net probate estate, other than <span class="dictionary">assets</span> passing to the surviving spouse by testate or intestate succession, and in the decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to others under subdivisions 1, 2, and 3 b of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Decedent's non-probate transfers to others" href="/64.2-308.6/">64.2-308.6</a> are applied first to satisfy the unsatisfied balance of the elective share amount. The decedent&#x2019;s net probate estate and that portion of the decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to others are so applied that liability for the unsatisfied balance of the elective share amount is apportioned among the recipients of the decedent&#x2019;s net probate estate and of that portion of the decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to others in proportion to the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of their interests therein. <a id="paragraph-211554" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.10/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> If, after the application of subsections A and C, the elective share amount is not fully satisfied, the remaining portion of the decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to others is so applied that liability for the unsatisfied balance of the elective share amount is apportioned among the recipients of the remaining portion of the decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to others in proportion to the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of their interests therein. <a id="paragraph-211555" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.10/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> The unsatisfied balance of the elective share amount as determined under subsection C or D is treated as a general pecuniary bequest. <a id="paragraph-211556" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.10/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2016, cc. 187, 269; 2018, c. 301.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
