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The beneficiary designation forms allow you to name primary and secondary beneficiaries. Your “primary beneficiaries” are the first people or entities that you want to receive your benefit after you die.

Once you name an irrevocable beneficiary on your policy, you can't change the beneficiary without their consent.

The beneficiary can be either revocable or irrevocable. A revocable beneficiary can be changed at any time. Once named, an irrevocable beneficiary cannot be changed without his or her consent.

If you get married or divorced, or have children or other life changes, standard sequence will follow those life changes. If you never file a beneficiary designation, your benefit will be paid ing to standard sequence at the time of your death.

The owner is the person who has control of the policy during the insured's lifetime. They have the power, if they want, to surrender the policy, to sell the policy, to gift the policy, to change the policy death benefit beneficiary.

Change a beneficiary Generally, you can review and update your beneficiary designations by contacting the company or organization that provides your insurance or retirement plan. You can sometimes do this online. Otherwise, you'll have to complete, sign, and mail a paper form.

Write only one beneficiary on each line. Make sure that you write the full names of all beneficiaries. For example, if you name you children as beneficiaries, DO NOT merely write “children” on one of the lines; instead write the full names of each of your children on separate lines.

How to change the beneficiary of your life insurance policy. You can change the beneficiaries of your life insurance by contacting your insurance company. You'll need to submit a change of beneficiary form online, on paper, or over the phone.