CODE OF VIRGINIA

PAYMENT OR DELIVERY OF SMALL ASSET; FUNERAL EXPENSES (§ 64.2-604)

Thirty days after the death of a decedent upon whose estate there shall have
been no application for the appointment of a personal representative pending or
granted in any jurisdiction, any person holding a small asset belonging to the
decedent may, at the request of a successor, pay or deliver so much of the small
asset as does not exceed the amount given priority by § 64.2-528 to the
undertaker or mortuary handling the funeral of the decedent, and a receipt of
the payee shall be a full and final release of the payor as to such sum.

HISTORY: 2010, c. 269, § 64.1-132.5; 2012, c. 614.