                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROBATE OF COPY OF WILL PROVED OUTSIDE THE COMMONWEALTH; AUTHENTICATED COPY (§
64.2-450)

When a will relative to an estate within the Commonwealth has been proved in
another jurisdiction, an authenticated copy of the will and the certificate of
probate of the will may be offered for probate in the Commonwealth, and there
shall be a rebuttable presumption that the will was duly executed and admitted
to probate as a will of personal estate in the jurisdiction of the
testator&#8217;s domicile and the circuit court, or the clerk of such court,
where it is offered shall admit such copy to probate as a will of personal
estate in the Commonwealth. If such copy indicates that the will was admitted to
probate in a court of another jurisdiction and was so executed as to be a valid
will of real estate in the Commonwealth by the law of the Commonwealth, such
copy may be admitted to probate as a will of real estate. An authenticated copy
of any will which has been self-proved under the laws of another state shall,
when offered with its authenticated certificate of probate, be admitted to
probate as a will of personal estate and real estate.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 64-88; 1968, c. 656, § 64.1-92; 1977, c. 249; 1980, c.
264; 2012, c. 614.