Chap. 36.—An_ ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section
numbered 5377-a, relating to the duties of personal representatives with respect
to bank deposits in the name of a decedent and one or more other pers 3I

Approved February 24, 1948

Re it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new
section numbered fifty-three hundred seventy-seven-a as follows:

Section 5377-a. Duty of personal representatives as to joint
bank accounts.—Personal representatives, or other fiduciaries
charged with the administration of the estate of a decedent shall
he under no obligation unless requested in writing by some one
in interest to assert a claim on behalf of their decedent’s estate
to any funds which may, at the time of his death, be on deposit
in any bank, trust company, or other depository, in the names of
said decedent and one or more other persons when the terms of
the contract of deposit, or the laws of the state in which such funds
are deposited, permit such bank, trust company or other depository
to pay to either of such persons, whether the other, or others, be
living or not.