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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77207</law_id><section_number>8.01-518</section_number><catch_line>When garnishee is personal representative of decedent</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="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="18">Executions and Other Means of Recovery</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Garnishment</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If the <span class="dictionary">person</span> so summoned be the personal representative of a decedent, he shall answer in writing whether or not there is in his hands in his <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> capacity, any sum of money owing to the <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span>, and if so, the amount thereof, if the same has been definitely determined, and when it will be payable by him; and if such amount has not been definitely ascertained, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall continue the case, with direction to him to thereafter, and as soon as such amount has been definitely determined, report the same to the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, and say when it will be payable by him. In either event, and when the amount so owing to the <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span> has been definitely fixed and determined, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall direct the <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> of such fund to the <span class="dictionary">creditor</span> of such other <span class="dictionary">person</span> or <span class="dictionary">persons</span> according as their rights may be determined.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-446; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
