64.1-1. Course of descents generally.
When any person having title to any real estate of inheritance shall die
intestate as to such estate, it shall descend and pass in parcenary to such of
his kindred, male and female, in the following course:
First. To the surviving spouse of the intestate, unless the intestate is
survived by children or their descendants, one or more of whom are not children
or their descendants of the surviving spouse, in which case two-thirds of such
estate shall pass to all the intestate's children and their descendants and the
remaining one-third of such estate shall pass to the intestate's surviving
spouse.
Second. If there be no surviving spouse, then the whole shall go to all the
intestate's children and their descendants.
Third. If there be none such, then to his or her father and mother or the
survivor.
Fourth. If there be none such, then to his or her brothers and sisters, and
their descendants.
Fifth. If there be none such, then one moiety shall go to the paternal, the
other to the maternal kindred, of the intestate, in the following course:
Sixth. First to the grandfather and grandmother or the survivor.
Seventh. If there be none, then to the uncles and aunts, and their descendants.
Eighth. If there be none such, then to the great grandfathers or great
grandfather, and great grandmothers or great grandmother.
Ninth. If there be none, then to the brothers and sisters of the grandfathers
and grandmothers, and their descendants.

Tenth. And so on, in other cases, without end, passing to the nearest lineal
ancestors, and the descendants of such ancestors.
Eleventh. If there be no paternal kindred the whole shall go to the maternal
kindred; and if there be no maternal kindred, the whole shall go to the paternal
kindred. If there be neither maternal nor paternal kindred, the whole shall go
to the kindred of the husband or wife, in the like course as if such husband or
wife had died entitled to the estate.
§ 64.1-2. How collaterals of half blood inherit.
Collaterals of the half blood shall inherit only half so much as those of the
whole blood.
§ 64.1-3. When parties take per capita and when per stirpes.
Whenever those entitled to partition are all in the same degree of kindred to
the intestate, they shall take per capita or by persons; and when, a part of
them being dead and a part living, the issue of those dead have right to
partition, such issue shall take per stirpes or by stocks, that is to say, the
shares of their deceased parents.
64.1-11. Distribution of personal estate.
When any person shall die intestate as to his personal estate or any part
thereof, the surplus (subject to the provisions of Article 5.1 (§ 64.1-151.1 et
seq.) of Chapter 6 of this title), after payment of funeral expenses, charges of
administration and debts, shall pass and be distributed to and among the same
persons, and in the same proportions, to whom and in which real estate is
directed to descend. However, if the intestate was married, the surviving spouse
shall be entitled to one-third of such surplus, if the intestate left surviving
children or their descendants, one or more of whom are not children or
descendants of the surviving spouse. If no such children or their descendants
survive, the surviving spouse shall be entitled to the whole of such surplus.
§ 64.1-12. Right of Commonwealth, if no other distributee.
To the Commonwealth shall accrue all the personal estate of every decedent, of
which there is no other distributee.
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