                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR FOR PROSECUTION OF ACTION FOR PERSONAL INJURY OR
WRONGFUL DEATH AGAINST OR ON BEHALF OF ESTATE OF DECEASED RESIDENT OR
NONRESIDENT (§ 64.2-454)

An administrator may be appointed in any case in which it is represented that
either a civil action for personal injury or death by wrongful act, or both,
arising within the Commonwealth is contemplated against or on behalf of the
estate or the beneficiaries of the estate of a resident or nonresident of the
Commonwealth who has died within or outside the Commonwealth if at least 60 days
have elapsed since the decedent&#8217;s death and an executor or administrator
of the estate has not been appointed under § 64.2-500 or 64.2-502, solely for
the purpose of prosecution or defense of any such actions, by the clerk of a
circuit court. An administrator appointed pursuant to this section may prosecute
actions for both personal injury and death by wrongful act.
		If a fiduciary has been appointed in a foreign jurisdiction, the fiduciary may
qualify as administrator. The appointment of a fiduciary in a foreign
jurisdiction shall not preclude a resident or nonresident from qualifying as an
administrator for the purposes of maintaining a wrongful death action pursuant
to § 8.01-50 or a personal injury action in the Commonwealth.
		A resident and nonresident may be appointed as coadministrators.

HISTORY: 1970, c. 475, § 64.1-75.1; 2001, c. 376; 2003, c. 265; 2012, c. 614;
2014, c. 528; 2015, cc. 124, 129, 130; 2024, cc. 50, 340.