(a) A registering entity offering to accept registrations in beneficiary form may establish the terms and conditions under which it will receive requests:

(1) for registration in beneficiary form, and

(2) for implementation of registrations in beneficiary form, including requests for cancellation of previously registered TOD beneficiary designations and requests for re-registration to effect a change of beneficiary.

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The terms and conditions so established may provide for proving death, avoiding or resolving any problems concerning fractional shares, designating primary and contingent beneficiaries, and 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 prime beneficiary the letters
‘LDPS’ (‘lineal descendants per stripes’). This designation substitutes a deceased beneficiary’s descendants who survive the owner for a
beneficiary who fails to survive the owner, 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 (1) 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.

(b) 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 owner-sole beneficiary: John S Brown Mary B Brown JT TEN TOD John S Brown Jr.; or

(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.

2014 NOTE: Pursuant to the authority granted by 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606, subsection designations were altered to adhere to the Compiler’s alpha-numeric scheme.