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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56825</law_id><section_number>64.2-308.4</section_number><catch_line>Composition of the augmented estate; marital property portion</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>64.2-308.10</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> Subject to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Exclusions, valuation, and overlapping application" href="/64.2-308.9/">64.2-308.9</a>, the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of the augmented estate, to the extent provided in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Decedent's net probate estate" href="/64.2-308.5/">64.2-308.5</a>, <a class="law" title="Decedent's non-probate transfers to others" href="/64.2-308.6/">64.2-308.6</a>, <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 class="law" title="Surviving spouse's property and non-probate transfers to others" href="/64.2-308.8/">64.2-308.8</a>, consists of the sum of the <span class="dictionary">values</span> of all property, whether real or personal, movable or immovable, tangible or intangible, wherever situated, that constitute: <a id="paragraph-208110" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.4/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The decedent&#x2019;s net probate estate; <a id="paragraph-208111" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.4/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to others; <a id="paragraph-208112" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.4/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The decedent&#x2019;s non-probate transfers to the surviving spouse; and <a id="paragraph-208113" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.4/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The surviving spouse&#x2019;s property and non-probate transfers to others. <a id="paragraph-208114" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.4/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The <span class="dictionary">value</span> of the marital-property portion of the augmented estate consists of the sum of the <span class="dictionary">values</span> of the four components of the augmented estate as determined under subsection A multiplied by the following percentage:
			If the decedent and the spouse were married to each other: The percentage is: <a id="paragraph-208115" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-308.4/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2016, cc. 187, 269.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
