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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59315</law_id><section_number>6.2-602</section_number><catch_line>Adverse claims to accounts</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="6">Deposits and Accounts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Notice to any <span class="dictionary">financial institution</span> 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: <a id="paragraph-217403" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-602/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Procure a restraining <span class="dictionary">order</span>, <span class="dictionary">injunction</span>, or other appropriate <span class="dictionary">order</span> against the <span class="dictionary">financial institution</span> from an appropriate <span class="dictionary">court</span>; or <a id="paragraph-217404" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-602/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Execute to such <span class="dictionary">financial institution</span>, in form and with sureties acceptable to it, a <span class="dictionary">bond</span> 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 <span class="dictionary">order</span>, of the <span class="dictionary">person</span> to whose credit the account is held. <a id="paragraph-217405" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-602/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> This section shall not affect the provisions of Article 2 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/6.2-604/">6.2-604</a> et seq.) of this chapter governing multiple-<span class="dictionary">party</span> accounts, and any claim by a <span class="dictionary">party</span> to such account shall be determined in accordance with the provisions therein. <a id="paragraph-217406" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-602/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> This section shall not affect any notice of <span class="dictionary">lien</span> pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Person paying debtor not affected by lien unless notice given" href="/8.01-502/">8.01-502</a>, any <span class="dictionary">order</span> of an appropriate <span class="dictionary">court</span>, or the issuance of a notice or other action issued by a state or federal governmental agency. <a id="paragraph-217407" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-602/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1996, c. 963, &#xA7; 6.1-2.9:7; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
