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This law was first created in 1981. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 469 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1981 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2012, chapter 614<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1502857,"object_type":"law","relational_id":376104,"identifier":"64.2-2505","token":"64.2\/V\/25\/64.2-2505","url":"\/64.2-2505\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/64.2-2505\/","token":"64.2\/V\/25\/64.2-2505","dublin_core":{"Title":"Interests dependent on survivorship or continuance of life","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 64.2-2505","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Any interest in property<\/span>, whether vested or not, held by the slayer<\/span> subject to be divested, diminished in any way, or extinguished if the decedent<\/span> survives him or lives to a certain age shall be held by the slayer<\/span> during his lifetime or until the decedent<\/span> would have reached such age, but shall then pass as if the decedent<\/span> had died immediately after the death of the slayer<\/span> or the reaching of such age.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nINTERESTS DEPENDENT ON SURVIVORSHIP OR CONTINUANCE OF LIFE (\u00a7 64.2-2505)\n\nAny interest in property, whether vested or not, held by the slayer subject to\nbe divested, diminished in any way, or extinguished if the decedent survives him\nor lives to a certain age shall be held by the slayer during his lifetime or\nuntil the decedent would have reached such age, but shall then pass as if the\ndecedent had died immediately after the death of the slayer or the reaching of\nsuch age.\n\nHISTORY: 1981, c. 469, \u00a7 55-408; 2012, c. 614.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}