Collateral Assignment Agreement

A collateral assignment refers to the transfer of ownership rights of an asset. When you borrow money, or when someone spends money on your behalf, often they will require you to pledge collateral in the form of an asset in order to protect them from loss.

A collateral assignment is temporary. For example, you take out a loan from the bank who asks you to provide life insurance to pay off the loan if you should die. Since you already have life insurance, you direct your insurer to pay off the loan out of the proceeds of your life policy.

When buying life insurance for the purpose of collateral assignment, you name your beneficiaries as you would for a personal policy. The lender is not your beneficiary; they are the assignee on the collateral assignment paperwork after your policy is active. On the form, you are the assignor .

If the policy is transferred under an absolute assignment, the transfer is irrevocable and the assignee receives full control of the policy.If the policy is transferred as a means of establishing security on a debt, it is considered a collateral assignment.

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