Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 755 ILCS 30/1

  • 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.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
     The designation in accordance with the terms of any insurance, annuity or endowment contract, or the designation in any agreement issued or entered into by an insurance company in connection therewith, supplemental thereto or in settlement thereof, or the designation under a pension, retirement, death benefit, deferred compensation, employment, agency, stock bonus or profit-sharing contract, plan, system or trust, or the designation under an account with a securities dealer as defined in Section 2.7 of the Illinois Securities Law of 1953, as now or hereafter amended, of any person to be a beneficiary, payee or owner of any right, title or interest thereunder upon the death of another, or any assignment of rights under any of the foregoing, shall not be subject to or defeated or impaired by any statute or rule of law governing the transfer of property by will, gift or intestacy, even though such designation or assignment is revocable or the rights of such beneficiary, payee, or owner or assignee are otherwise subject to defeasance.