2022 Georgia Code
Title 51 - Torts
Chapter 12 - Damages
Article 4 - Georgia Structured Settlement Protection
§ 51-12-76. Separate Disclosure Statement Provided to Payee; Requirements

Not less than ten days prior to the date on which a payee signs a transfer agreement, the transferee shall provide to the payee a separate disclosure statement, in bold type no smaller than 14 point font, setting forth the following:

1. The amounts and due dates of the structured settlement payments to be transferred;
2. The aggregate amount of such payments;
3. The discounted present value of the payments to be transferred, which shall be identified as the “calculation of current value of the transferred structured settlement payments under federal standards for valuing annuities,” and the amount of the Applicable Federal Rate used in calculating such discounted present value;
4. The gross advance amount;
5. An itemized listing of all applicable transfer expenses, other than attorney fees and related disbursements, payable in connection with the transferee’s application for approval of the transfer, and the transferee’s best estimate of the amount of any such fees and disbursements;
6. The effective annual interest rate, which must be disclosed in a statement in the following form: “On the basis of the net amount that you will receive from us and the amounts and timing of the structured settlement payments that you are transferring to us, you will, in effect, be paying interest to us at a rate of  _______________  percent per year.”;
7. The net advance amount;
8. The amount of any penalties or liquidated damages payable by the payee in the event of any breach of the transfer agreement by the payee;
9. That the payee has the right to cancel the transfer agreement, without penalty or further obligation, until the transfer is approved by the court;
10. That the payee has the right to seek and receive independent professional advice regarding the proposed transfer and should consider doing so before agreeing to transfer any structured settlement payment rights; and
11. That the payee has the right to seek out and consider additional offers for transferring the structured settlement payments and should do so.

History. Code 1981, § 51-12-76 , enacted by Ga. L. 2021, p. 663, § 1/HB 443; Ga. L. 2022, p. 352, § 51/HB 1428.

The 2022 amendment, effective May 2, 2022, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation in paragraph (6).