# West Virginia — Third-party litigation funding disclosure requirements by US state — whether the law requires a party to disclose a litigation funding agreement, to whom, and on what trigger, quoted from the statute itself

For West Virginia, disclosure obligation is Except as otherwise stipulated or ordered by the court, a party or his or her counsel shall, without awaiting a discovery request, provide to the other parties any agreement under which any litigation financier, other than an attorney permitted to charge a contingent fee representing a party, has a right to receive compensation that is contingent in any respect on the outcome of the legal claim; disclosed to is the other parties; when is without awaiting a discovery request; statute is W. Va. Code §46A-6N-6, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** West Virginia _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Disclosure obligation:** Except as otherwise stipulated or ordered by the court, a party or his or her counsel shall, without awaiting a discovery request, provide to the other parties any agreement under which any litigation financier, other than an attorney permitted to charge a contingent fee representing a party, has a right to receive compensation that is contingent in any respect on the outcome of the legal claim. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Disclosed to:** the other parties _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **When:** without awaiting a discovery request _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute:** W. Va. Code §46A-6N-6 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> §46A-6N-6. Third-party agreements. (a) Except as otherwise stipulated or ordered by the court, a party or his or her counsel shall, without awaiting a discovery request, provide to the other parties any agreement under which any litigation financier, other than an attorney permitted to charge a contingent fee representing a party, has a right to receive compensation that is contingent in any respect on the outcome of the legal claim.

## Source

- https://code.wvlegislature.gov/46A-6N-6/

Last verified: 2026-09-02. Review by: 2027-03-01.
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