West Virginia § 44-5-2 Fiduciary records of circuit court to be deposited in county clerk's office

West Virginia Statutes

§ 44-5-2 — Fiduciary records of circuit court to be deposited in county clerk's office

West Virginia § 44-5-2

Ch. 44ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES AND TRUSTS

Art. 5GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO FIDUCIARIES

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W. Va. Code § 44-5-2 (2026).

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The circuit court of each county shall, as soon as may be after this code becomes effective, direct its clerk to transfer to the office of the clerk of the county commission of its county any wills, records of wills, records of the appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators or committees, and records of their oaths, bonds, inventories, appraisements and settlements, heretofore kept in their said courts, and the clerk of the county court shall keep and preserve the same among the other similar records of his office. If the same are not properly and completely indexed when deposited in his office, the county clerk shall make a full and complete index to the same.

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The circuit court of each county shall, as soon as may be after this code becomes effective, direct its clerk to transfer to the office of the clerk of the county commission of its county any wills, records of wills, records of the appointment and qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators or committees, and records of their oaths, bonds, inventories, appraisements and settlements, heretofore kept in their said courts, and the clerk of the county court shall keep and preserve the same among the other similar records of his office. If the same are not properly and completely indexed when deposited in his office, the county clerk shall make a full and complete index to the same.