"Personal representative" includes the executor of a will or the administrator of the estate of a decedent, the administrator of such estate with the will annexed, the administrator of such estate unadministered by a former representative, whether there is a will or not, any person who is under the order of a circuit court to take into his possession the estate of a decedent for administration, and every other curator of a decedent's estate, for or against whom suits may be brought for causes of action that accrued to or against the decedent.
Va. Code Ann. § 1-234
Personal representative
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case In re: Woodley (2015)
Most recently applied in Estate of Eleusipa Van Emburgh v. United States (March 2024)
Code 1919, § 5; Code 1950, § 1-13; 1950, p. 22, § 1-13.21; 1971, Ex
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