PATTERSON v. PATTERSON

Record No. 981185.

515 S.E.2d 113 (1999)

257 Va. 558

Paul PATTERSON v. Dana Bruce PATTERSON, Executor of the Estate of Ernestine Patterson, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 16, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Davis, Charlottesville, for appellant.

Peter L. McCloud (Edward H. Bain, Jr.; Boyle, Bain & Downer, on brief), Charlottesville, for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


KOONTZ, Justice.

In this appeal, we consider whether the trial court properly determined that a certificate of deposit registered in the joint names of a husband and wife with right of survivorship was the sole property of the wife and, upon her death, became part of her estate.

BACKGROUND

On May 1, 1995, nineteen days before her death, Ernestine J. Patterson was informed by her husband, Paul Patterson, that he had found a bank in Richmond...

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