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23-81-707. General provisions — Construction.
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23-81-707. General provisions — Construction.
(a) The provisions of this subchapter may not be waived by any payee.
(b)(1) Any transfer agreement entered into on or after August 12, 2005, by a payee who resides in this state shall provide that disputes under the transfer agreement, including any claim that the payee has breached the agreement, shall be determined in and under the laws of the State of Arkansas.
(2) No transfer agreement shall authorize the transferee or any other party to confess judgment or consent to entry of judgment against the payee.
(c) No transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall extend to any payments that are life-contingent unless prior to the date on which the payee signs the transfer agreement, the transferee has established and has agreed to maintain procedures reasonably satisfactory to the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor for:
(1) Periodically confirming the payee's survival; and
(2) Giving the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor prompt written notice in the event of the payee's death.
(d) No payee who proposes to make a transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall incur any penalty, forfeit any application fee or other payment, or otherwise incur any liability to the proposed transferee or any assignee based on any failure of the transfer to satisfy the conditions of this subchapter.
(e) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed to authorize any transfer of structured settlement payment rights in contravention of any law or to imply that any transfer under a transfer agreement entered into prior to August 12, 2005, is valid or invalid.
(f) Compliance with the requirements set forth in § 23-81-703 and fulfillment of the conditions set forth in § 23-
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-81-707
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23-81-707. General provisions — Construction.
(a) The provisions of this subchapter may not be waived by any payee.
(b)(1) Any transfer agreement entered into on or after August 12, 2005, by a payee who resides in this state shall provide that disputes under the transfer agreement, including any claim that the payee has breached the agreement, shall be determined in and under the laws of the State of Arkansas.
(2) No transfer agreement shall authorize the transferee or any other party to confess judgment or consent to entry of judgment against the payee.
(c) No transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall extend to any payments that are life-contingent unless prior to the date on which the payee signs the transfer agreement, the transferee has established and has agreed to maintain procedures reasonably satisfactory to the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor for:
(1) Periodically confirming the payee's survival; and
(2) Giving the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor prompt written notice in the event of the payee's death.
(d) No payee who proposes to make a transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall incur any penalty, forfeit any application fee or other payment, or otherwise incur any liability to the proposed transferee or any assignee based on any failure of the transfer to satisfy the conditions of this subchapter.
(e) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed to authorize any transfer of structured settlement payment rights in contravention of any law or to imply that any transfer under a transfer agreement entered into prior to August 12, 2005, is valid or invalid.
(f) Compliance with the requirements set forth in § 23-81-703 and fulfillment of the conditions set forth in § 23-81-704 shall be solely the responsibility of the transferee in any transfer of structured settlement payment rights, and neither the structured settlement obligor nor the annuity issuer shall bear any responsibility for or any liability arising from noncompliance with the requirements or failure to fulfill the conditions.
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23-81-703. Required disclosures to payee.
Not less than three (3) days prior to the date on which a payee signs a transfer agreement, the transferee shall provide to the payee a separate disclosure statement in bold type no smaller than fourteen (14) points, setting forth:
(1) The amounts and due dates of the structured settlement payments to be transferred;
(2) The aggregate amount of the payments;
(3) The discounted present value of the payments to be transferred, which shall be identified as the “calculation of current value of the transferred structured settlement payments under federal standards for valuing annuities”, and the amount of the applicable federal rate used in calculating the discounted present value;
(4) The gross advance amount;
(5) An itemized listing of all applicable transfer expenses, other than attorney's fees and related disbursements payable in connection with the transferee's application for approval of the transfer, and the transferee's best estimate of the amount of any such fees and disbursements;
(6) The net advance amount;
(7) The amount of any penalties or liquidated damages payable by the payee in the event of any breach of the transfer agreement by the payee; and
(8) A statement that the payee has the right to cancel the transfer agreement, without penalty or further obligation, not later than the third business day after the date the agreement is signed by the payee.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-81-703
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 23-81-703. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
23-81-704. Approval of transfers of structured settlement payment rights.
No direct or indirect transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall be effective and no structured settlement obligor or annuity issuer shall be required to make any payment directly or indirectly to any transferee of structured settlement payment rights unless the transfer has been approved in advance in a final court order or order of a responsible administrative authority based on express findings by the court or responsible administrative authority that:
(1) The transfer is in the best interest of the payee, taking into account the welfare and support of the payee's dependents;
(2) The payee has been advised in writing by the transferee to seek independent professional advice regarding the transfer and has either received the advice or knowingly waived the advice in writing; and
(3) The transfer does not contravene any applicable statute or the order of any court or other government authority.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-81-704
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 23-81-704. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.