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West Virginia Code
Chapter 44
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Persons Presumed to Be Dead and Their Estates.
44-9-1
When person presumed to be dead.
44-9-1a
When person in military service presumed to be dead; administration of estate; when spouse may remarry.
44-9-1b
When person in area proclaimed to be in a state of emergency presumed dead.
44-9-2
Jurisdiction of estate of supposed decedent.
44-9-3
Application for probate or administration, and publication of notice thereof.
44-9-4
Ancillary letters on estates of nonresidents supposed to be dead.
44-9-5
Evidence on such application; record thereof.
44-9-6
Order declaring presumption established; probate of will; letters testamentary or of administration; their effect; death certificate issued upon order.
44-9-7
Powers of clerk of county commission.
44-9-8
Personal representative to institute suit to settle such estate.
44-9-9
Publication in such suit.
44-9-10
Procedure when supposed decedent fails to appear.
44-9-11
Distribution of estate; refunding bonds.
44-9-12
Vacation of prior proceedings on reappearance of supposed decedent.
44-9-13
Final accounting of personal representative; effect of his acts; title of purchasers and distributees.
44-9-14
Substitution of supposed decedent in pending actions; opening judgments; effect of judgment after substitution.
44-9-15
When laws relating to wills and estates generally to govern.
44-9-16
Costs, by whom payable.