§ 6.2-602 Adverse claims to accounts
A. Notice to any financial institution doing business in the Commonwealth of an adverse claim to funds in an account with such institution shall not require the institution to recognize the adverse claim unless the adverse claimant shall either:
1. Procure a restraining order, injunction, or other appropriate order against the financial institution from an appropriate court; or
2. Execute to such financial institution, in form and with sureties acceptable to it, a bond indemnifying the institution from any and all liability, loss, damage, costs, and expenses, for and on account of the payment or recognition of such adverse claim, or the dishonor of, or failure to pay, any check, or failure to comply with any other order, of the person to whose credit the account is held.
B. This section shall not affect the provisions of Article 2 (§ 6.2-604 et seq.) of this chapter governing multiple-party accounts, and any claim by a party to such account shall be determined in accordance with the provisions therein.
C. This section shall not affect any notice of lien pursuant to § 8.01-502, any order of an appropriate court, or the issuance of a notice or other action issued by a state or federal governmental agency.
History
This law was first created in 1996. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 963 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2010, chapter 794.
1996, c. 963, § 6.1-2.9:7; 2010, c. 794.