Alabama Code 19-3-125. Life, endowment, or annuity contracts
Terms Used In Alabama Code 19-3-125
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- following: means next after. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- preceding: means next before. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
In addition to any other investment now permitted by law, a guardian or trustee may invest the funds of his ward or of the beneficiary of the trust in life, endowment or annuity contracts of legal reserve life insurance companies duly qualified and authorized to write such business in the State of Alabama; provided, however, that the annual premium or premiums on such contracts purchased by such guardian or trustee shall not exceed 25 percent of the income of the ward or the beneficiary for any calendar year preceding the date of such purchase. The contract must contain the following options after it has been in force for three years or less: a cash surrender value option, a paid-up insurance or endowment option, and an extended insurance or endowment option. Such contract may be issued on the life or lives of the ward or wards, or beneficiary or beneficiaries of the trust or upon the life or lives of persons in whose life or lives such ward or beneficiary of the trust has an insurable interest. The proceeds or avails of such contract shall be the sole property of the person or persons whose funds are invested therein. The contract or policy form may provide reasonable forfeiture for nonpayment of premiums and must be a form of contract which has been approved by the Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Alabama. Whether such contract so specifically provides or not, the guardian or trustee shall have the right without order of court to exercise for the use of the ward or beneficiary of the trust, any option contained in such contract; except, that the guardian or trustee shall not have the right to borrow on security of said policy or its proceeds unless authorized to do so by order of the court having jurisdiction of the guardianship or trust.
The power given in this section is in addition to and not in derogation of any power of investment given a guardian or trustee under existing law, but to the extent that any statute now in force is in conflict herewith, the same shall be and is hereby repealed.