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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58575</law_id><section_number>64.2-557</section_number><catch_line>Form for notice to show cause under &#xA7; 64.2-556</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="II">Wills and Decedents' Estates</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Personal Representatives and Administration of Estates</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="9">Settlement of Accounts and Distribution</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any notice to show cause published or posted in pursuance of the requirements of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Order to creditors to show cause against distribution of estate to legatees or distributees; liability of legatees or distributees to refund" href="/64.2-556/">64.2-556</a> may be substantially in the form following:
		Virginia: In the _______________ <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of _______________
		the __________ day of _______________
		Re: ____________________, deceased.
		SHOW CAUSE <span class="dictionary">ORDER</span>
		It appearing that a report of the accounts of ____________________, <span class="dictionary">Personal Representative</span> of the estate of ____________________, deceased, and of the debts and demands against (his) (her) estate has been filed in the Clerk&#x2019;s Office, and that six months have elapsed since the qualification, on <span class="dictionary">motion</span> of ____________________, (a distributee;) (a legatee;) (the <span class="dictionary">personal representative</span>;) IT IS ORDERED that the <span class="dictionary">creditors</span> of, and all others interested in, the estate do show cause, if any they can, on the __________ day of _______________ (before this <span class="dictionary">Court</span> at its courtroom) at ____________________ against the payment and delivery of the Estate of ____________________, deceased, to (the distributees) (the legatees) (without requiring refunding <span class="dictionary">bonds</span>) (with or without refunding <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> as the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> prescribes).
		A Copy &#x2014; Teste:________________________________________Clerk
		________________________________________, p.q.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 64-170; 1968, c. 656, &#xA7; 64.1-180; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
