Section 5510 Of Part 3. Uniform Tod Security Registration Act From California Probate Code >> Division 5. >> Part 3.
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. (a) A registering entity offering to accept registrations in
beneficiary form may establish the terms and conditions under which
it will receive requests for (1) registrations in beneficiary form,
and (2) implementation of registrations in beneficiary form,
including requests for cancellation of previously registered TOD
beneficiary designations and requests for reregistration to effect a
change of beneficiary.
(b) The terms and conditions established pursuant to subdivision
(a) may provide for (1) proving death, (2) avoiding or resolving any
problems concerning fractional shares, (3) designating primary and
contingent beneficiaries, and (4) substituting a named beneficiary's
descendants to take in the place of the named beneficiary in the
event of the beneficiary's death. Substitution may be indicated by
appending to the name of the primary beneficiary the letters LDPS,
standing for "lineal descendants per stirpes." This designation
substitutes a deceased beneficiary's descendants who survive the
owner for a beneficiary who fails to so survive, the descendants to
be identified and to share in accordance with the law of the
beneficiary's domicile at the owner's death governing inheritance by
descendants of an intestate. Other forms of identifying beneficiaries
who are to take on one or more contingencies, and rules for
providing proofs and assurances needed to satisfy reasonable concerns
by registering entities regarding conditions and identities relevant
to accurate implementation of registrations in beneficiary form, may
be contained in a registering entity's terms and conditions.
(c) The following are illustrations of registrations in
beneficiary form that a registering entity may authorize:
(1) Sole owner-sole beneficiary: John S. Brown TOD (or POD) John
S. Brown, Jr.
(2) Multiple owners-sole beneficiary: John S. Brown Mary B. Brown,
JT TEN TOD John S. Brown, Jr.
(3) Multiple owners-primary and secondary (substituted)
beneficiaries: John S. Brown Mary B. Brown, JT TEN TOD John S. Brown,
Jr. SUB BENE Peter Q. Brown , or John S. Brown Mary B. Brown JT TEN
TOD John S. Brown Jr. LDPS.