Annual Survey of Virginia Law: Wills, Trusts, and Estates

The 1993 session of the General Assembly enacted legislation dealing with wills, trusts, and estates that added, amended, or repealed a number of sections of the Code of Virginia (the code). In addition to this legislation, there were five cases from the Supreme Court of Virginia in the year ending June 1, 1993 which involve issues of interest to both the general practitioner and the specialist in wills, trusts, and estates. This article analyzes each of these leg- islative and judicial developments.