You can freely assign your life insurance policy unless some limitation is specified in your contract (your insurance company can furnish the required assignment forms). Through an assignment, you can transfer your rights to all or a portion of the policy proceeds to an assignee.
Since the policyowner actually owns the policy, not the insurer, the owner has every right to give the policy away just like any other owned piece of property; the insurer's permission is not required. The transfer of ownership is referred to as assignment and the new owner is the assignee.
--(1) A transfer or assignment of a policy of insurance, wholly or in part, whether with or without consideration, may be made only by an endorsement upon the policy itself or by a separate instrument, signed in either case by the transferor or by the assignor or his duly authorised agent and attested by at least one ...
In a life insurance assignment, a policy owner transfers his ownership rights of the policy to another party. The original owner is the assignor and the second party is the assignee.
Assignee in an Insurance Policy In the context of a life insurance policy, interest in a policy can be transferred from the policyholder to a lender or relative by assignment of the policy. In this case, the policyholder is the assignor and the person in whose favor the policy has been assigned is called the assignee.
This form permanently transfers ownership of your FEGLI insurance to another individual, trustee, or corporation (however, premiums continue to be withheld from your salary/annuity). An assignment is irrevocable, and cannot be changed later.
Also called an assignment and assumption. An agreement in which one party transfers its contractual rights and obligations to another party.
Editor's Note: An assignment and assumption agreement assigns contractual rights or intangible personal property (such as intellectual property or goodwill) from one party, the assignor, to another party, the assignee, who will also assume at least some of the associated liabilities and performance obligations.
As a general rule, then, contracts interpreted under California law may be assigned; however, to be effective, there must be evidence that the assignor (the party assigning the contract) intended to transfer the assignor's title or ownership of the rights and obligations under the contract to the assignee (the party ...
Also called an assignment and assumption. An agreement in which one party transfers its contractual rights and obligations to another party.