2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 397 - UNIFORM SIMULTANEOUS DEATH ACT 397.1007 Protection of payors, bona fide purchases, and other third parties -- Personal liability of recipient.
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397.1007 Protection of payors, bona fide purchases, and other third parties -Personal liability of recipient.
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A payor or other third party shall not be liable for having made a payment
or transferred an item of property or any other benefit to a beneficiary
designated in a governing instrument who, under this chapter, is not
entitled to the payment or item of property, or for having taken any other
action in good faith reliance on the beneficiary's apparent entitlement
under the terms of the governing instrument, before the payor or other
third party received written notice of a claimed lack of entitlement under
this chapter. A payor or other third party shall be liable for a payment
made or other action taken after the payor or other third party received
written notice of a claimed lack of entitlement under this chapter.
(b) Written notice of a claimed lack of entitlement under paragraph (a) of this
subsection shall be mailed to the payor's or other third party's main office
or home by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or served
upon the payor or other third party in the same manner as a summons in
a civil action. Upon receipt of written notice of a claimed lack of
entitlement under this chapter, a payor or other third party shall pay any
amount owed, or transfer or deposit any item of property held by it, to or
with the court having jurisdiction of the probate proceedings related to the
decedent's estate, or if no proceedings have been commenced, to or with
the court having jurisdiction of probate proceedings relating to the
decedent's estate located in the county of the decedent's residence. The
court shall hold the funds or item of property and, upon its determination
under this chapter, shall order disbursement in accordance with the
determination. Payments, transfers, or deposits made to or with the court
shall discharge the payor or other third party from all claims for the value
of amounts paid to or items of property transferred to or deposited with
the court.
A person who purchases property for value and without notice, or who receives
a payment or other item of property in partial or full satisfaction of a legally
enforceable obligation, shall not be obligated under this chapter to return the
payment, item of property, or benefit and shall not be liable under this chapter
for the amount of the payment or the value of the item of property or benefit.
But a person who, not for value, receives a payment, item of property, or any
other benefit to which the person is not entitled under this chapter shall be
obligated to return the payment, item of property, or benefit or shall be
personally liable for the amount of the payment of the value of the item of
property or benefit, to the person who is entitled to it under this chapter.
If this chapter, or any part of this chapter, is preempted by federal law with
respect to a payment, an item of property, or any other benefit covered by this
chapter, a person who, not for value, receives the payment, item of property, or
any other benefit to which the person is not entitled under this chapter shall be
obligated to return the payment, item of property, or benefit or shall be
personally liable for the amount of the payment or the value of the item of
property or benefit, to the person who would have been entitled to it were this
chapter, or part of this chapter, not preempted.
Effective:July 15, 1998
History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 415, sec. 7, effective July 15, 1998.
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