If, under the terms of any life insurance policy or of any written agreement supplemental to a life insurance policy, the proceeds are retained by the insurer at maturity or otherwise, no person entitled to any part of the proceeds, or to any installment of interest due or becoming due, may commute, anticipate, encumber, alienate or assign the proceeds or any part of the proceeds or interest if permission is expressly withheld by the terms of the policy or supplemental agreement. If the life insurance policy or supplemental agreement provides, no payments of interest or principal shall be in any way subject to the person's debts, contracts or engagements, nor to any judicial process to levy upon or attach the interest or principal for payment of those debts, contracts, or engagements.
Code 1950, § 38-115; 1952, c. 317, § 38.1-444; 1986, c. 562.
Structure Code of Virginia
§ 38.2-3100.1. Forms of insurance authorized
§ 38.2-3100.2. Funding agreements
§ 38.2-3101. Legal reserve insurers
§ 38.2-3103. Fraudulent procurement of policy; penalty
§ 38.2-3105. What contracts with respect to life insurance may be made by minors
§ 38.2-3106. Suicide and execution not grounds of defense; exception
§ 38.2-3107. Incontestability of certain policies
§ 38.2-3108. Misstatement of age
§ 38.2-3109. Contestability of reinstated policy
§ 38.2-3110. Incontestability not applicable to excluded or restricted coverage
§ 38.2-3111. Assignment of life insurance policies
§ 38.2-3112. Designation of testamentary trustee as beneficiary
§ 38.2-3113.3. Educational loan provisions in life insurance policies
§ 38.2-3115. Interest on life insurance and annuity contract proceeds
§ 38.2-3115.1. Accelerated payment of benefits
§ 38.2-3117. Standards for certain policies; prohibited policies
§ 38.2-3117.01. Provision of life insurance information upon notification of insured's death
§ 38.2-3117.2. Explanation of settlement options
§ 38.2-3117.3. Supplemental contract
§ 38.2-3117.4. Disclosures for retained asset accounts to beneficiaries
§ 38.2-3118. Spendthrift trusts created under life insurance policies
§ 38.2-3119. Limitation on § 38.2-3118
§ 38.2-3121. Segregation of proceeds not required
§ 38.2-3124. Protection of insurers from creditor's claims
§ 38.2-3125. Other rights of beneficiaries and assignees protected