A financial institution, on request, may pay sums on deposit in an account with a POD designation:
(1) to 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) to 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;
(3) to the personal representative 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; or
(4) in accordance with a court order directing the payment of the sums on deposit.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 539, Section 1; 1987 Act No. 171, Section 74; 1976 Code Section 62-6-110; 2013 Act No. 100, Section 2, eff January 1, 2014.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 62 - South Carolina Probate Code
Article 6 - Nonprobate Transfers
Section 62-6-101. Definitions.
Section 62-6-102. Applicability of article.
Section 62-6-104. Short forms for single- and multiple-party accounts.
Section 62-6-105. Designation of agent; authority of agent.
Section 62-6-106. Applicability of Part 2.
Section 62-6-201. Ownership during lifetime.
Section 62-6-202. Right of survivorship.
Section 62-6-203. Rights of parties and beneficiaries.
Section 62-6-204. Transfers not testamentary.
Section 62-6-205. Rights of creditors.
Section 62-6-301. Contract of deposit for a multiple-party account.
Section 62-6-302. Multiple-party accounts may be paid on request to one or more parties.
Section 62-6-303. Payment of POD account.
Section 62-6-304. Payment to agent.