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Terms Used In Iowa Code 633D.3

  • 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
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
  • Sole ownership: The type of property ownership in which one individual holds legal title to the property and has full control of it.
633D.3 Registration in beneficiary form — sole or joint tenancy ownership.
Only an individual whose registration of a security shows sole ownership by one individual or multiple ownership by two or more individuals with a right of survivorship, rather than as tenants in common, may obtain registration in beneficiary form. Multiple owners of a security registered in beneficiary form shall hold as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, tenants by the entireties, or owners of community property held in survivorship form and not as tenants in common.
97 Acts, ch 178, §19
CS97, §633.802
2005 Acts, ch 38, §53
CS2005, §633D.3