(a) A custodian may deliver or pay to the minor or expend for the minor's benefit so much of the custodial property as the custodian considers advisable for the use and benefit of the minor, without court order and without regard to (i) the duty or ability of the custodian personally or of any other person to support the minor, or (ii) any other income or property of the minor which may be applicable or available for that purpose.
(b) On petition of an interested person or the minor if the minor has attained the age of fourteen years, the court may order the custodian to deliver or pay to the minor or expend for the minor's benefit so much of the custodial property as the court considers advisable for the use and benefit of the minor.
(c) A delivery, payment or expenditure under this section is in addition to, not in substitution for, and does not affect any obligation of a person to support the minor.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 36. Estates and Property
Article 7. Uniform Transfers to Minors Act
§36-7-2. Scope and Jurisdiction
§36-7-3. Nomination of Custodian
§36-7-4. Transfer by Gift or Exercise of Power of Appointment
§36-7-5. Transfer Authorized by Will or Trust
§36-7-6. Other Transfer by Fiduciary
§36-7-8. Receipt for Custodial Property
§36-7-10. Single Custodianship
§36-7-11. Validity and Effect of Transfer
§36-7-12. Care of Custodial Property
§36-7-14. Use of Custodial Property
§36-7-15. Custodian's Expenses, Compensation, and Bond
§36-7-16. Exemption of Third Person From Liability
§36-7-17. Liability to Third Persons
§36-7-19. Accounting by and Determination of Liability of Custodian
§36-7-20. Termination of Custodianship
§36-7-22. Effect on Existing Custodianships