                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REVOCATION OF DETERMINATION OF DEATH; EFFECT ON PREVIOUS ACTS; TITLE OF
PURCHASERS (§ 64.2-2307)

The court, after reasonable notice to the parties interested, may revoke a
determination of death at any time based on satisfactory evidence that the
presumed decedent is in fact alive. If a determination of death is revoked, all
powers of any personal representative shall terminate; however, if the personal
representative has complied with the provisions of § 64.2-2306, all receipts
and disbursements of assets and other acts previously done by the personal
representative and the title of bona fide purchasers of property under sales
made by the personal representative or by any heir at law, devisee, next of kin,
legatee, survivor, beneficiary, or other successor in interest shall remain as
valid as if no revocation had been made. Any personal representative shall
settle his account and all assets remaining in his possession or in the
possession of such heir at law, devisee, next of kin, legatee, survivor,
beneficiary, or other successor in interest, and the proceeds of such assets,
shall be transferred to the person who had been determined to be dead or to his
duly authorized agent or attorney. Nothing in this section shall validate the
title of any person to any money or property received as an heir at law,
devisee, next of kin, legatee, survivor, beneficiary, or other successor in
interest of such presumed decedent, and such money or property may be recovered
from them as if the order determining death had not been granted.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 64-109; 1968, c. 656, § 64.1-113; 2006, c. 351; 2012, c.
614.