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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57143</law_id><section_number>6.2-1176</section_number><catch_line>Accounts of fiduciaries</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><p>A <span class="dictionary">savings institution</span> may <span class="dictionary">issue</span> <span class="dictionary">accounts</span> in the name of any administrator, executor, custodian, conservator, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary for a named beneficiary or beneficiaries. The payment of funds from any such <span class="dictionary">account</span> pursuant to a check or other written <span class="dictionary">order</span> of withdrawal signed by the fiduciary, the delivery of funds in such <span class="dictionary">account</span> to such fiduciary, or a receipt signed by any such fiduciary with regard to the payment of funds from such <span class="dictionary">account</span>, shall be a valid and sufficient release and discharge of the institution for the payment or delivery so made.</p></section></text><history>1985, c. 425, &#xA7; 6.1-194.59; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
