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Tennessee probate bond rules: a fiduciary bond is required unless the will waives it or all adult beneficiaries waive it. Cost, amount, and how to waive it.
Tennessee debt payment priority: the four classes executors must pay in order under Tenn. Code Ann. 30-2-317, insolvent estate rules, and personal liability.
Tennessee step-up in basis explained: how inherited property gets a new basis at death, and why only federal capital gains tax applies, not state tax.
Tennessee surviving spouse rights explained: the elective share sliding scale by marriage length, plus year's support, exempt property, and the homestead right.
Virginia has no state estate or inheritance tax, so only the federal estate tax can apply. Learn the 2026 exclusion, portability, and what counts in the estate.
Understand Virginia exempt property, the up-to-$25,000 in household goods and vehicles a surviving spouse or minor children can claim under Va. Code 64.2-310.
Virginia probate accounting for executors. What you must report, the inventory and Commissioner of Accounts review, and how the final account closes the estate.
Virginia probate bond requirements: a personal representative gives bond at qualification before the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and a will may waive surety.
The Virginia debt payment priority order comes from Va. Code 64.2-528, which sets how executors pay estate debts. Learn the classes and insolvent-estate rules.
How step up in basis works in Virginia, a common-law state where only decedent's half of jointly owned property steps up, lowering capital gains tax on sale.
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