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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55871</law_id><section_number>64.2-524</section_number><catch_line>Validation of certain conveyances by foreign executor</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="5">Personal Representatives and Administration of Estates</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Power With Respect to Real Estate</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Every conveyance of real estate within the Commonwealth made prior to June 30, 1986, by the executor under a <span class="dictionary">will</span> that, prior to such sale, has been probated according to the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of another state without the qualification of the executor in the Commonwealth, shall be as valid and effective to pass the title of such real estate as if the executor had qualified in the Commonwealth, provided that (i) the <span class="dictionary">will</span> under which the executor acted was duly executed according to the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth, (ii) the <span class="dictionary">will</span> confers upon the executor the power to convey the real estate, and (iii) an authenticated copy of such <span class="dictionary">will</span> has been admitted to probate in the Commonwealth in the county or city in which the real estate or any part thereof is located. <a id="paragraph-204660" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-524/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Notwithstanding any other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, any conveyance of real estate within the Commonwealth made on or after June 30, 1986, by an executor described in subsection A or the <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> of a testamentary trust established in a <span class="dictionary">will</span> where the <span class="dictionary">will</span>, prior to such sale, has been probated according to the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of another state shall, without the qualification of the executor or the testamentary <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> in the Commonwealth, be valid and effective to pass the title of such real estate provided that (i) the executor or testamentary <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> had duly qualified according to the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the state where the <span class="dictionary">will</span> was probated, (ii) the <span class="dictionary">will</span> under which the executor or testamentary <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> acted was duly executed according to the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth as a valid <span class="dictionary">will</span> and confers upon the executor or testamentary <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> the power to convey the real estate so conveyed, and (iii) an authenticated copy of such <span class="dictionary">will</span> has been admitted to probate in the Commonwealth in the county or city in which the real estate or any part thereof is situated. <a id="paragraph-204661" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-524/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 64-139, 64-140; 1958, c. 558; 1960, c. 279; 1968, c. 656, &#xA7;&#xA7; 64.1-149, 64.1-150; 1996, c. 93; 2012, cc. 61, 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
