Origination of registration in beneficiary form · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 13-4.4 Origination of registration in beneficiary form
A security, whether evidenced by certificate or account, is registered in beneficiary form when the registration includes a designation of a beneficiary to take the ownership at the death of the owner or the deaths of all multiple owners.
A certificated or account security is in beneficiary form when its registration designates who takes ownership at the sole owner’s death or after all multiple owners die. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Surrogate's Court in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Surrogate's Court: Court Rules & the EPTL; Volume 5 — Your Career: Surrogate's Court in Plain English.