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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58155</law_id><section_number>58.1-21</section_number><catch_line>No decree for distribution until taxes paid or provided for</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="0">General Provisions of Title 58.1</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Responsibility of Fiduciaries in Tax Matters</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No <span class="dictionary">decree</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall be entered by any <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the Commonwealth directing the payment or other distribution of any funds, securities, moneys or other property under its control or under the control or in the hands of any receiver, commissioner or other officer of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> or any executor, administrator, trustee or other fiduciary unless it be made to appear to such <span class="dictionary">court</span> that all taxes and levies upon such funds, securities, moneys or other property have been paid or unless the payment thereof be provided for in such <span class="dictionary">decree</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span>. No commissioner, executor, administrator, trustee or other fiduciary, receiver, trustee, bank or other person or corporation shall pay out any funds in hand under the <span class="dictionary">order</span> of any <span class="dictionary">court</span> unless a receipt for taxes is produced showing the taxes have been paid, or unless such <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall so state.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-870; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
