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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79038</law_id><section_number>64.2-532</section_number><catch_line>Real estate of decedent as assets for payment of debts</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>64.2-534</reference><reference>64.2-535</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="5">Personal Representatives and Administration of Estates</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="6">Liability of Real Estate to Debts</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If a decedent&#x2019;s personal estate is insufficient to satisfy the decedent&#x2019;s debts and lawful demands against his estate, all real estate of the decedent, including such real estate that remains after satisfying the debts with which the real estate was charged or was subject to under the decedent&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">will</span>, are <span class="dictionary">assets</span> for the payment of the decedent&#x2019;s debts and all lawful demands against his estate. A decedent&#x2019;s real estate shall be applied to his debts and lawful demands against his estate in the same <span class="dictionary">order</span> that the personal estate of a decedent is applied pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Order in which debts and demands of decedents to be paid" href="/64.2-528/">64.2-528</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 64-171; 1968, c. 656, &#xA7; 64.1-181; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
