                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REVOCATION BY INSTRUMENT AUTHORIZED; REVOCATION BY ACT NOT PERMITTED (§
64.2-630)

A. Subject to subsection B, an instrument is effective to revoke a recorded
transfer on death deed, or any part of it, only if the instrument:

   1. Is one of the following:
   				a. A transfer on death deed that revokes the transfer on death deed or
   part of the transfer on death deed expressly;
   				b. A transfer on death deed that names a designated beneficiary that is
   inconsistent with the designated beneficiary in a prior transfer on death
   deed;
   				c. An instrument of revocation that expressly revokes the transfer on
   death deed or part of the transfer on death deed; or
   				d. An inter vivos deed that conveys real property to another so the
   transferor is no longer the owner at the time of the transferor&#8217;s death.

   2. Is acknowledged by the transferor after the acknowledgment of the transfer
   on death deed being revoked and recorded before the transferor&#8217;s death
   in the land records of the clerk&#8217;s office of the circuit court where the
   deed is recorded.

B. If a transfer on death deed is made by more than one transferor:

   1. Revocation by a transferor does not affect the transfer on death deed as to
   the interest of another transferor; and

   2. A transfer on death deed of joint owners is revoked only if it is revoked
   by all of the living joint owners.

C. After a transfer on death deed is recorded, it can be revoked only by an
effective revocatory instrument recorded prior to the death of the transferor
and may not be revoked by a revocatory act taken against or on the original or a
copy of the recorded transfer on death deed.

D. This section does not limit the effect of an inter vivos transfer of the
property.

HISTORY: 2013, c. 390, 2025, c. 85.