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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67817</law_id><section_number>64.2-1315</section_number><catch_line>Certification and recording of accounts settled in a judicial proceeding</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="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><p>When the account of any <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> is settled in a judicial proceeding, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> in which the judicial proceeding was held, as soon as may be practicable after entry of a <span class="dictionary">final order</span>, to certify to the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> in which the <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> qualified a copy of the account so far as the account has been confirmed, with a <span class="dictionary">memorandum</span> at the foot of the copy stating the style of the suit and the date of the <span class="dictionary">final order</span>. The account and <span class="dictionary">memorandum</span> so certified shall be recorded by the clerk to whom it is certified in the book in which accounts of fiduciaries are required to be recorded under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Recordation of report" href="/64.2-1214/">64.2-1214</a>. If in a proceeding subsequent to the entry of the <span class="dictionary">final order</span>, the account is reformed or altered, a copy of such reformed or altered account shall be certified and recorded, together with a <span class="dictionary">memorandum</span> stating the style of the suit and the date of the order or <span class="dictionary">decree</span> of confirmation, in the same manner as the <span class="dictionary">final order</span>. When the judicial proceeding is conducted in the same <span class="dictionary">court</span> in which the <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> qualified, the clerk of such <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall make the memoranda and recordations required by this section, and shall for such purpose use the original papers. For making any copy under this section, the clerk shall be entitled to the fees prescribed in like cases, and for recording such account of the <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> he shall be entitled to the fees allowed for recording accounts settled <span class="dictionary">ex parte</span>. The fees for copying and recording shall be paid as the <span class="dictionary">court</span> in which the judicial proceeding was held shall direct.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5411; Code 1950, &#xA7; 26-21; 2005, c. 681; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
