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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79419</law_id><section_number>64.2-450</section_number><catch_line>Probate of copy of will proved outside the Commonwealth; authenticated copy</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="II">Wills and Decedents' Estates</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Wills</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="5">Probate</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When a <span class="dictionary">will</span> relative to an estate within the Commonwealth has been proved in another <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>, an authenticated copy of the <span class="dictionary">will</span> and the certificate of probate of the <span class="dictionary">will</span> may be offered for probate in the Commonwealth, and there shall be a rebuttable <span class="dictionary">presumption</span> that the <span class="dictionary">will</span> was duly executed and admitted to probate as a <span class="dictionary">will</span> of personal estate in the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of the testator&#x2019;s domicile and the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span>, or the clerk of such <span class="dictionary">court</span>, where it is offered shall admit such copy to probate as a <span class="dictionary">will</span> of personal estate in the Commonwealth. If such copy indicates that the <span class="dictionary">will</span> was admitted to probate in a <span class="dictionary">court</span> of another <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> and was so executed as to be a valid <span class="dictionary">will</span> of real estate in the Commonwealth by the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the Commonwealth, such copy may be admitted to probate as a <span class="dictionary">will</span> of real estate. An authenticated copy of any <span class="dictionary">will</span> which has been self-proved under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of another state shall, when offered with its authenticated certificate of probate, be admitted to probate as a <span class="dictionary">will</span> of personal estate and real estate.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 64-88; 1968, c. 656, &#xA7; 64.1-92; 1977, c. 249; 1980, c. 264; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
