‘Slayer’s’ Daughters Can’t Inherit 
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Published: September 22, 2011
Tags: Criminal, Justice Donald W. Lemons, Supreme Court of Virginia
The daughters of a man convicted in 2009 of murdering his mother in 2005 cannot claim their grandmother’s estate under the laws of intestate succession, because the 2005 version of the Slayer Statute bars claims from a person who claims through the slayer; the Supreme Court of Virginia declines to apply the 2008 version of ...
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