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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76699</law_id><section_number>64.2-609</section_number><catch_line>Money and personal property belonging to nonresident decedents</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>6.2-893</reference><reference>64.2-1426</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="II">Wills and Decedents' Estates</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Transfers Without Qualification</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Payments, Settlements, or Administration Without Appointment of Representative</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> When any person, at the time of his death domiciled outside of the Commonwealth, owned stocks, <span class="dictionary">bonds</span>, securities, money, or tangible personal property located in the Commonwealth or was entitled to any debts, choses in action, or tangible personal property in the Commonwealth, the person, firm, or corporation holding such stocks, <span class="dictionary">bonds</span>, securities, money, debts, tangible personal property, and choses in action shall retain such <span class="dictionary">assets</span> for 90 days from the death of such decedent. After the 90-day period, the person, firm, or corporation shall pay over or deliver on demand such portion of the <span class="dictionary">assets</span> for which the person, firm, or corporation has received no legal notice of any <span class="dictionary">lien</span> or encumbrance to an executor, administrator, or other <span class="dictionary">personal representative</span>, qualified according to the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the decedent&#x2019;s domicile if the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of such <span class="dictionary">assets</span> in the Commonwealth is, to the knowledge of the person holding or owing such <span class="dictionary">assets</span>, less than $35,000. When the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of such stocks, <span class="dictionary">bonds</span>, securities, money, debts, tangible personal property, and choses in action is $35,000 or more, the holder may pay or deliver such <span class="dictionary">assets</span> to an executor, administrator, or other <span class="dictionary">personal representative</span>, qualified in accordance with the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the decedent&#x2019;s domicile, 30 days after the holder gives public notice of his intention to make such a transfer by publication thereof once a week for four successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, town, or county wherein the holder resides or has his principal place of business, provided that at the time of such payment or delivery, the holder has no actual notice of the appointment of a <span class="dictionary">personal representative</span> for such decedent in the Commonwealth and has received no legal notice of any <span class="dictionary">lien</span> or encumbrance upon such <span class="dictionary">assets</span>. <a id="paragraph-275341" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-609/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> This section shall be construed as providing, as to the payment of money and the delivery of personal property belonging to nonresident decedents or their estates, optional methods of procedure in addition to those otherwise permitted or provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, including a comparable <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the state in which the nonresident decedents were domiciled, and shall not as to such matters add any limitations or restrictions to existing <span class="dictionary">law</span>. <a id="paragraph-275342" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-609/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 64-123; 1956, c. 536; 1968, c. 656, &#xA7; 64.1-130; 1970, c. 244; 1988, c. 370; 1996, c. 549; 2001, c. 368; 2009, c. 250; 2012, c. 614; 2014, c. 532; 2025, c. 148.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
