SB51: Small Estate Act; payment of funeral expenses.
SENATE BILL NO. 51
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 64.2-604 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 64.2-604. Payment or delivery of small asset; funeral expenses.
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 shall, 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.