55-403 - Descent, distribution and statutory rights as survivor. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-403. Descent, distribution and statutory rights as survivor.

The slayer shall be deemed to have predeceased the decedent as to propertywhich would have passed from the estate of the decedent to the slayer underthe statutes of descent and distribution or which would have been acquired bystatutory right as surviving spouse. An heir or distributee who establisheshis kinship to the decedent by way of his kinship to a slayer shall be deemedto be claiming from the decedent and not through the slayer.

(1981, c. 469; 1990, c. 831; 2008, cc. 822, 830.)