Multiple-Party Accounts

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This is Article 2 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Multiple-Party Accounts.” It is part of Chapter 6 “Deposits and Accounts”, which is part of Subtitle II “Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations”, which is part of Title 6.2 “Financial Institutions and Services”. It contains 18 laws.

It’s comprised of the following 18 sections.

§ 6.2-604	Definitions
§ 6.2-605	Applicability
§ 6.2-606	Ownership during lifetime; garnishment, attachment, or levy
§ 6.2-607	Effect of divorce
§ 6.2-608	Right of survivorship
§ 6.2-609	Change of form of account upon written order to financial institution
§ 6.2-610	Transfers arising from right of survivorship nontestamentary
§ 6.2-611	Liability of surviving party for debts and other liabilities of decedent's estate
§ 6.2-612	Financial institution duties; multiple-party accounts; multiple-fiduciary accounts
§ 6.2-613	Payment of sums in joint account
§ 6.2-614	Payment of P.O.D. account
§ 6.2-615	Payment of trust account
§ 6.2-615.1	Payment of multiple-fiduciary account
§ 6.2-616	Discharge of financial institution upon payment
§ 6.2-617	Setoff by financial institution against account
§ 6.2-618	Identification of joint accounts
§ 6.2-619	Certain duties of parties to joint accounts in financial institutions
§ 6.2-620	Application of article to accounts existing on July 1, 1980