For most people (including myself) a spouse is
usually named a beneficiary to ensure that the funds can be transferred easily to the spouse in case the RRSP holder passes away.
The funeral homes are
usually the named beneficiary.
Not exact matches
However, a gift of assets to a non-spousal trust that
names other persons as
beneficiaries usually results in a disposition of those assets at fair market value for income tax purposes.
One of the main advantages of life insurance benefits is that they are
usually paid to
named beneficiaries quickly,
usually within 60 days of a claim, and do not have to wait to go through probate court with the rest of your legacy assets.
If the
beneficiary dies before the participant and payments have already started, the participant's monthly benefit
usually will not change and the participant typically can not
name a new
beneficiary.
The insured party
usually has the option of changing
named beneficiaries.
It is common for a lender, bank or other entity to ask a business owner to take out and maintain a life insurance policy and
name the lender as a primary
beneficiary for the debt (payoff schedule is
usually attached to the assignment), as a condition of the loan until the loan is repaid.
This
beneficiary can be a person, institution, or charity and though insurable interest is not required to be a
beneficiary, family members of the insured are
usually named.
While many types of annuities allow the annuity owner to
name a
beneficiary (
usually a spouse) who will be eligible for either continued payments or death benefits, a straight life annuity forgoes this added benefit in favor of higher guaranteed payments while the annuitant is alive.
As an alternative, there is the joint and survivor annuity, which continues to make payments until both
named individuals (owner and
beneficiary —
usually spouses) are dead.
Naming a contingent
beneficiary usually solves most of these problems.
Split dollar insurance: An arrangement between two people (often an employer and an employee) where life insurance is written on the life of one who also
names the
beneficiary of the net death benefits (death benefits less cash value), and the other is assigned the cash value (or equivalent amount of death benefits), with both sharing the premium payments (
usually the noninsured paying a portion equal to the increase in cash value each year and the insured paying the balance of the annual premium).
Life insurance is
usually a pretty straightforward product: you pay for the policy and when you die, a sum of money (the death benefit) goes to the
beneficiaries you
named on your policy (find out How to Collect a Life Insurance Payout).
It is
usually best to
name a
beneficiary.
Usually, the insured will
name their spouse as well as their children as
beneficiaries of their life insurance policy.
Beneficiaries are
usually named by the owner of the policy, and can be any person, place, or thing.
Generally, the policy owner — who is also
usually the person who pays the premiums — can
name anyone he or she chooses as
beneficiary.
Usually a spouse doesn't have any right to claim the life insurance money if someone else is
named as
beneficiary — except in a community property state.
This type of coverage is
usually purchased in conjunction with a funeral home which will be the
named beneficiary on the policy.