Terms Used In South Carolina Code 15-50-170

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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.
  • Transfer: means the sale, assignment, pledge, hypothecation, or other alienation or encumbrance of structured settlement payment rights made by a payee for consideration; except that the term "transfer" does not include the creation or perfection of a security interest in structured settlement payment rights under a blanket security agreement entered into with an insured depository institution, in the absence of an action to redirect the structured settlement payments to the insured depository institution, or an agent or successor in interest of it, or otherwise to enforce the blanket security interest against the structured settlement payment rights. See South Carolina Code 15-50-20
  • Transfer order: means an order approving a transfer in accordance with this chapter. See South Carolina Code 15-50-20
  • Transferee: means a party acquiring or proposing to acquire structured settlement payment rights through a transfer. See South Carolina Code 15-50-20
Except as otherwise provided, a transfer order signed by a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to this act constitutes a qualified order under 26 U.S.C. § 5891. If a transferee to which the transfer order applies is not registered as a structured settlement purchase company pursuant to this act at the time the transfer order is signed, the transfer order does not constitute a qualified order under 26 U.S.C. § 5891.