(a) Every bond required to be given by an executor or administrator shall be in a penalty equal, at the least, to the full value of the personal estate of the deceased to be administered; and where there is a will which authorizes the executor or administrator to sell real estate, or receive the rents and profits thereof, the bond shall be in a penalty equal, at the least, to the full value both of such personal estate and of such real estate, or of such personal estate and of such rents and profits, as the case may be.
(b) If on the filing of the appraisement of the estate it shall appear that the penalty of the bond does not comply as to amount with the foregoing requirements, the county commission in which, or the clerk before whom, such bond was given, shall immediately notify such executor or administrator of such fact and require of him or her a new or additional bond, and the failure of such executor or administrator to give the same within a reasonable time shall be sufficient cause for his or her removal.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 44. Administration of Estates and Trusts
Article 1. Personal Representatives
§44-1-1. Executor Has No Powers Before Qualifying
§44-1-2. Administration With Will Annexed
§44-1-3. Oath of Executor or Administrator With Will Annexed
§44-1-5. When Curator May Be Appointed; His Duties
§44-1-6. Bond and Oath; Termination of Grant in Certain Cases
§44-1-8. When Executor or Administrator Not to Give Bond; When Surety Not Required
§44-1-10. Marriage of Female Representative Does Not Extinguish Authority
§44-1-11. When Sheriff to Administer Estate
§44-1-12. Letters of Administration
§44-1-13. Affidavit Showing Heirs, Distributees, Devisees and Legatees of Decedent
§44-1-17. Food and Fuel for Family
§44-1-18. What Estate Not to Be Sold
§44-1-19. Sale of Goods Likely to Be Impaired in Value
§44-1-20. When to Sell Other Goods
§44-1-21. Estate for Life of Another Is Assets
§44-1-22. Suits by and Against
§44-1-23. Actions for Goods Carried Away, Waste or Damage to Estate of or by Decedent
§44-1-24. Action for Waste by Representative
§44-1-25. Administrator De Bonis Non May Have Scire Facias
§44-1-26. Action on Bond of Personal Representative
§44-1-27. Not Chargeable Beyond Assets; Pleas Allowed
§44-1-29. Authority of Personal Representative Concerning Conservation and Preservation Easements
§44-1-30. Death Certificate or Other Proof of Death and Residence May Be Required