State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Virginia > Title-64-1 > Chapter-6 > 64-1-151-5§ 64.1-151.5. When and how exempt property and allowances may be claimed.
The election to take family allowance, exempt property and homesteadallowance, or any of them, may be made within one year from the death of thetestator or intestate. The election shall be made either in person before thecourt having jurisdiction over probate or administration of the decedent'sestate, or by writing recorded in the court, or the clerk's office thereof,upon such acknowledgment or proof as would authorize a writing to be admittedto record under Chapter 6 (§ 55-106 et seq.) of Title 55.
(1981, c. 580.)
