A financial institution, on request, may pay sums on deposit in an account with a POD designation to
(1) one or more of the parties whether or not another party is disabled, incapacitated, or deceased when the payment is requested and whether or not a party survives another party;
(2) the beneficiary or beneficiaries if proof of death is presented to the financial institution showing that the beneficiary or beneficiaries survived all persons named as parties; or
(3) the personal representative, if any, or, if there is none, the heirs or devisees of a deceased party if proof of death is presented to the financial institution showing that the deceased party was the survivor of all other persons named on the account either as a party or beneficiary.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions
Chapter 33. Nonprobate Transfers
Article 2. Single and Multiple Party Accounts.
Sec. 13.33.202. Limitation on scope.
Sec. 13.33.203. Types of account; existing accounts.
Sec. 13.33.205. Designation of agent and termination of authority.
Sec. 13.33.206. Applicability.
Sec. 13.33.211. Ownership during lifetime.
Sec. 13.33.212. Rights at death.
Sec. 13.33.213. Alteration of rights.
Sec. 13.33.214. Accounts and transfers nontestamentary.
Sec. 13.33.215. Rights of creditors and others.
Sec. 13.33.216. Community property and tenancy by the entirety.
Sec. 13.33.221. Authority of financial institution.
Sec. 13.33.222. Payment on multiple-party account.
Sec. 13.33.223. Payment on POD designation.
Sec. 13.33.224. Payment to designated agent.