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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73540</law_id><section_number>6.2-1174</section_number><catch_line>Accounts of deceased or incompetent persons</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="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="11">Savings Institutions</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="6">Accounts</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span> may pay funds held in the <span class="dictionary">account</span> of a deceased <span class="dictionary">person</span> or a <span class="dictionary">person</span> under disability to the personal representative, committee, conservator, guardian, or curator of such <span class="dictionary">person</span> upon proper proof of the appointment and qualification of such fiduciary. Any <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span> making such payment shall not thereafter be liable for the amount thereof to any <span class="dictionary">person</span>. The presentation of a duly certified letter or certificate of qualification as personal representative or other fiduciary shall be conclusive proof of the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> issuing the same. <a id="paragraph-264587" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1174/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span> that has not received written notice and is not on actual notice that an <span class="dictionary">account</span> owner is deceased or has been adjudicated incompetent may pay or deliver funds held in such <span class="dictionary">person</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">account</span> in accordance with the provisions of the <span class="dictionary">account</span> <span class="dictionary">contract</span> without liability to any <span class="dictionary">person</span> for the amounts so paid or delivered. <a id="paragraph-264588" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1174/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-201.25; 1960, c. 402; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-152; 1972, c. 796, &#xA7; 6.1-195.28; 1985, c. 425, &#xA7; 6.1-194.57; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
