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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76370</law_id><section_number>64.2-1407</section_number><catch_line>Who to execute the trust until new trustee appointed</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>64.2-1408</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="14">Fiduciaries Generally</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="1">Appointment, Qualification, Resignation, and Removal of Fiduciaries</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">personal representative</span> of a deceased <span class="dictionary">trustee</span>, or the remaining <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> or <span class="dictionary">trustees</span> if there were more than one <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> and one or more but less than all of them have died, resigned, become incapable of executing the trust on account of physical or mental disability or confinement in prison, become ineligible to continue to serve as <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> because of no longer being a resident of the Commonwealth where residency is statutorily required, or otherwise become ineligible to continue serving as <span class="dictionary">trustee</span>, shall execute the trust, or so much of the trust as remained unexecuted at the time such lack of capacity to execute the trust or such ineligibility came into being until an appointment is made pursuant to this part, unless the instrument creating the trust directs otherwise or some other <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> is appointed for the purpose by a <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> having <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of the case. In the case of removal of the trust management function by a corporate <span class="dictionary">trustee</span>, the corporate <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> shall continue to execute the trust until such time as an appointment is made pursuant to this part. <a id="paragraph-274171" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1407/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The provisions of this section shall not apply to any trust governed by the Uniform Trust Code (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Scope" href="/64.2-700/">64.2-700</a> et seq.). <a id="paragraph-274172" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1407/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 6300; 1930, p. 350; 1940, p. 302; 1942, p. 168; Code 1950, &#xA7; 26-51; 1998, cc. 392, 410; 2001, c. 38; 2005, c. 935; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
