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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69027</law_id><section_number>64.2-1306</section_number><catch_line>Testamentary trustees</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>64.2-1313</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="64.2">Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Fiduciaries and Guardians</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="A">Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="13">Inventories and Accounts</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Except as provided in subsections B and C, testamentary <span class="dictionary">trustees</span> shall exhibit a statement of all money and other property that the <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> has received, has become chargeable with, or has disbursed for each calendar year before the commissioner of accounts of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> where the <span class="dictionary">order</span> conferring his authority was entered on an annual basis commencing on or before May 1 of the calendar year following initial funding of the trust. Accounts for each calendar year thereafter shall be filed on or before May 1 of the following calendar year. <a id="paragraph-249864" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1306/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> All testamentary <span class="dictionary">trustees</span> who qualify prior to July 1, 1993, and elect to file accounts on a fiscal year basis may continue to file such accounts on an annual basis within four months after the end of the fiscal year selected. <a id="paragraph-249865" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1306/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Accountings for trusts where one of the <span class="dictionary">trustees</span> is a corporation qualified under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Entities authorized to engage in banking business" href="/6.2-803/">6.2-803</a>, and by other testamentary <span class="dictionary">trustees</span> permitted by the Internal Revenue Code to file income tax returns on a fiscal year, may be filed on the basis of the trust fiscal year. The first account shall be filed within 16 months of the date on which the trust was initially funded. <a id="paragraph-249866" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1306/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1993, c. 689, &#xA7; 26-17.6; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
