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A transfer-on-death account is an arrangement that allows the assets held within a brokerage account or bank account to pass directly to a named beneficiary upon the account holder’s death, thus ...
Nonprobate Transfers on Death: Rules governing nonprobate transfers, such as joint bank accounts, life insurance policies, and transfer-on-death (TOD) securities: 7 Trust Administration: Provisions governing management of trusts; fiduciary duties of trustees. The provisions of Article 7 have been superseded by the Uniform Trust Code.
If you are a joint account holder responsible for an account after a death, you might want to move some assets, if you have more than $250,000, to another type of bank account or a new bank.
The name is derived from Matter of Totten, 179 N.Y. 112 (1904), the case decided by the New York Court of Appeals which established the legality of this practice. Although this method of creating a trust did not meet the formal requirements of trust creation, or the testamentary formalities required to make a valid will, the Court noted that such an arrangement typically involved a small ...
A gift, in the law of property, is the voluntary and immediate transfer of property from one person (the donor or grantor) to another (the donee or grantee) without consideration. There are several type of gifts in property law, most notably inter vivos gifts which are made in the donor's lifetime and causa mortis (deathbed) gifts which are ...
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