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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68189</law_id><section_number>64.2-620</section_number><catch_line>Nonprobate transfers on death</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>32.1-309.2</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="6">Transfers Without Qualification</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Nonprobate Transfers on Death</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A provision for a nonprobate transfer on death in an insurance policy, <span class="dictionary">contract</span> of employment, <span class="dictionary">bond</span>, mortgage, promissory note, certificated or uncertificated security, account agreement, custodial agreement, deposit agreement, compensation plan, pension plan, individual retirement plan, employee benefit plan, trust, conveyance, deed of gift, marital property agreement, or other written instrument of a similar nature is nontestamentary.
			Nontestamentary transfers also include writings stating that (i) money or other benefits due to, controlled by, or owned by a decedent before death shall be paid after the decedent&#x2019;s death to a person whom the decedent designates either in the instrument or in a separate writing, including a <span class="dictionary">will</span>, executed either before or at the same time as the instrument, or later; (ii) money due or to become due under the instrument ceases to be payable in the event of death of the promisee or the promisor before payment or demand; or (iii) any property controlled by or owned by the decedent before death that is the subject of the instrument passes to a person the decedent designates either in the instrument or in a separate writing, including a <span class="dictionary">will</span>, executed either before or at the same time as the instrument, or later. <a id="paragraph-246813" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-620/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> This section does not limit rights of <span class="dictionary">creditors</span> under other <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-246814" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-620/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2001, c. 583, &#xA7; 64.1-45.3; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
