CODE OF VIRGINIA

SURVIVORSHIP BETWEEN JOINT TENANTS ABOLISHED (§ 55-20)

When any joint tenant dies, before or after the vesting of the estate, whether
the estate is real or personal, or whether partition could have been compelled
or not, his part shall descend to his heirs, or pass by devise, or go to his
personal representative, subject to debts or distribution, as if he had been a
tenant in common.  And if hereafter any estate, real or personal, is conveyed or
devised to a husband and his wife, they shall take and hold the same by moieties
in like manner as if a distinct moiety had been given to each by a separate
conveyance.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5159; 1990, c. 831.