                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CLERKS MAY PROBATE WILLS (§ 64.2-444)

A. The clerk of any circuit court, or any duly qualified deputy of such clerk,
may admit wills to probate, appoint and qualify executors, administrators, and
curators of decedents, and require and take from them the necessary bonds, in
the same manner and with like effect as the circuit court.

B. The clerk shall keep an order book, in which shall be entered all orders made
by him, or his deputy, in performance of his duties pursuant to subsection A,
except probate orders that are recorded in the will book need not be entered in
the order book.

C. All wills heretofore admitted to probate by any duly qualified deputy clerk
of any circuit court are deemed to have been properly admitted to probate to the
same extent as if the clerk had acted in the proceeding.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 64-73; 1968, c. 656, § 64.1-77; 1973, c. 217; 2012, c.
614.