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  2. Code of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Title page to the Code of 1819, formally titled The Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia. The Code of Virginia is the statutory law of the U.S. state of Virginia and consists of the codified legislation of the Virginia General Assembly. The 1950 Code of Virginia is the revision currently in force.

  3. Uniform Probate Code - Wikipedia

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    The Uniform Probate Code (commonly abbreviated UPC) is a uniform act drafted by National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) governing inheritance and the decedents' estates in the United States.

  4. Uniform Simultaneous Death Act - Wikipedia

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    The Uniform Simultaneous Death Act is a uniform act enacted in some U.S. states to alleviate the problem of simultaneous death in determining inheritance.. The Act specifies that, if two or more people die within 120 hours of one another, and no will or other document provides for this situation explicitly, each is considered to have predeceased the others.

  5. I Live in Virginia. How Can I Avoid Probate? - AOL

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    In Virginia, they ensure privacy and avoid probate delays and the probate tax. But trusts cost $1,000 or more in legal fees. You will still need a pour-over will naming the trust as beneficiary.

  6. Uniform Trust Code - Wikipedia

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    This committee aimed for broad representation and included legal experts from various organizations, such as the American Bar Association (ABA) and its Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), the American Bankers Association, and state bar associations from California and ...

  7. Advancement (inheritance) - Wikipedia

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    Advancement is a common law doctrine of intestate succession that presumes that gifts given to a person's heir during that person's life are intended as an advance on what that heir would inherit upon the death of the parent. Not to be confused with an advance of someone's expected distribution from an estate currently in probate.

  8. Pretermitted heir - Wikipedia

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    In the law of property, a pretermitted heir is a person who would likely stand to inherit under a will, except that the testator (the person who wrote the will) did not include the person in the testator's will. Omission may occur because the testator did not know of the omitted person at the time the will was written.

  9. Laughing heir - Wikipedia

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    Virginia (also extends inheritance rights to relatives of a predeceased spouse) Until 2013, Texas had no laughing heir statute, instead allowing estates to pass to the nearest lineal ancestors or descendants "without end". [2] Texas passed such a law (HB 2912) in 2013, and thereafter following the Uniform Probate Code.

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