A. A person having the right to designate the recipient of property payable or transferable upon a future event may create a custodial trust upon the occurrence of the future event by designating in writing the recipient, followed in substance by: "as custodial trustee for.................… (name of beneficiary) under the Virginia Uniform Custodial Trust Act."
B. Persons may be designated as substitute or successor custodial trustees to whom the property shall be paid or transferred in the order named if the first designated custodial trustee is unable or unwilling to serve.
C. A designation under this section may be made in a will, a trust, a deed, a multiple-party account, an insurance policy, an instrument exercising a power of appointment, or a writing designating a beneficiary of contractual rights. Otherwise, to be effective, the designation shall be registered with or delivered to the fiduciary, payor, issuer, or obligor of the future right.
1990, c. 264, § 55-34.3; 2012, c. 614.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 64.2 - Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries
Chapter 9 - Uniform Custodial Trust Act
§ 64.2-901. Custodial trust; creation and termination; general provisions
§ 64.2-902. Custodial trustee for future payment or transfer
§ 64.2-903. Form and effect of receipt and acceptance by custodial trustee; jurisdiction
§ 64.2-904. Transfer to custodial trustee by fiduciary or obligor; facility of payment
§ 64.2-905. Multiple beneficiaries; separate custodial trusts; survivorship
§ 64.2-906. General duties of custodial trustee
§ 64.2-907. General powers of custodial trustee
§ 64.2-908. Use of custodial trust property
§ 64.2-909. Determination of incapacity; effect
§ 64.2-910. Exemption of third person from liability
§ 64.2-911. Liability to third person; exceptions
§ 64.2-913. Expenses, compensation, and bond of custodial trustee
§ 64.2-914. Reporting and accounting by custodial trustee; determination of liability
§ 64.2-915. Limitations of action against custodial trustee
§ 64.2-916. Distribution on termination