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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>376348</law_id><section_number>64.2-619</section_number><catch_line>Terms, conditions, and forms for registration; examples</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="136" identifier="64.2">Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="2" identifier="II">Wills and Decedents' Estates</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="5" identifier="6">Transfers Without Qualification</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="3" identifier="3">Uniform Transfers on Death (Tod) Security Registration Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">registering entity</span> offering to accept registrations in <span class="dictionary">beneficiary form</span> may establish the terms and conditions under which it <span class="dictionary">will</span> receive requests (i) for registrations in <span class="dictionary">beneficiary form</span> and (ii) for implementation of registrations in <span class="dictionary">beneficiary form</span>, including requests for cancellation of previously registered TOD beneficiary designations and requests for reregistration to effect a change of beneficiary. The terms and conditions so established may provide for proving death, avoiding or resolving any problems concerning fractional shares, designating primary and contingent beneficiaries, and substituting a named beneficiary&#x2019;s descendants to take in the place of the named beneficiary in the event of the beneficiary&#x2019;s death.
			Substitution may be indicated by appending to the name of the primary beneficiary the letters LDPS, standing for &#x201C;lineal descendants per stirpes.&#x201D; This designation substitutes a deceased beneficiary&#x2019;s descendants who survive the owner for a beneficiary who fails to so survive, the descendants to be identified and to share in accordance with the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the beneficiary&#x2019;s domicile at the owner&#x2019;s death governing inheritance by descendants of an intestate. Other forms of identifying beneficiaries who are to take on one or more contingencies, and rules for providing proofs and assurances needed to satisfy reasonable concerns by registering entities regarding conditions and identities relevant to accurate implementation of registrations in <span class="dictionary">beneficiary form</span>, may be contained in a <span class="dictionary">registering entity</span>&#x2019;s terms and conditions. <a id="paragraph-1405087" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-619/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The following are illustrations of registrations in <span class="dictionary">beneficiary form</span> which a <span class="dictionary">registering entity</span> may authorize: <a id="paragraph-1405088" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-619/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Sole owner-sole beneficiary: John S. Brown TOD (or POD) John S. Brown, Jr. <a id="paragraph-1405089" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-619/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Multiple owners-sole beneficiary: John S. Brown Mary B. Brown JT TEN TOD John S. Brown, Jr. <a id="paragraph-1405090" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-619/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Multiple owners-primary and secondary (substituted) beneficiaries: John S. Brown Mary B. Brown JT TEN TOD John S. Brown, Jr. SUB BENE Peter Q. Brown or John S. Brown Mary B. Brown JT TEN TOD John S. Brown, Jr. LDPS. <a id="paragraph-1405091" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-619/#B3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1994, c. 422, &#xA7; 64.1-206.8; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
