                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

JURISDICTION OF PROBATE OF WILLS (§ 64.2-443)

A. The circuit courts shall have jurisdiction of the probate of wills. A will
shall be offered for probate in the circuit court in the county or city wherein
the decedent has a known place of residence; if he has no such known place of
residence, then in a county or city wherein any real estate lies that is devised
or owned by the decedent; and if there is no such real estate, then in the
county or city wherein he dies or a county or city wherein he has estate.

B. Where any person has become, either voluntarily or involuntarily, a patient
in a nursing home, convalescent home, or similar institution due to advanced age
or impaired health, the place of legal residence of the person shall be
rebuttably presumed to be the same as it was before he became a patient.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 64-72, 64-72.1; 1966, c. 330; 1968, c. 656, §§
64.1-75, 64.1-76; 2012, c. 614.