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- Alaska Statutes.
- Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure
- Chapter 60. Costs and Attorney Fees; Settlements
- Section 200. Conditions to Transfers of Structured Settlement Payment Rights and Structured Settlement Agreements.
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AS 09.60.200. Conditions to Transfers of Structured Settlement Payment Rights and Structured Settlement Agreements.
- (a) A transfer of structured settlement payment rights is not effective and a structured settlement obligor or annuity
issuer is not required to make a payment directly or indirectly to a transferee of structured settlement payment rights
unless the transfer has been approved by a superior court based on the court's written express findings that
- (1) the structured settlement arose from an action filed in the state or that could have been filed in the state , or the payee
of the structured settlement is domiciled in the state ;
- (2) the transfer complies with the requirements of AS 09.60.200
- 09.60.230, other applicable state and federal law,
and the orders of any court;
- (3) not less than 10 days before the date on which the payee first incurred an obligation with respect to the transfer,
the payee has received by certified mail, return receipt requested, or other means that provide a comparable record of
delivery, a disclosure statement in bold type, no smaller than 14 points, specifying
- (A) the amounts and due dates of the structured settlement payments to be transferred;
- (B) the aggregate amount of the payments;
- (C) the discounted present value of the payments, together with the discount rate used in determining the discounted
present value;
- (D) the gross amount payable to the payee in exchange for the payments;
- (E) an itemized listing of all broker's commissions, service charges, application fees, processing fees, closing costs,
filing fees, referral fees, administrative fees, legal fees, notary fees, and other commissions, fees, costs, expenses,
and charges payable by the payee or deductible from the gross amount otherwise payable to the payee;
- (F) the net amount payable to the payee after deduction of all commissions, fees, costs, expenses, and charges described
in (E) of this paragraph;
- (G) the quotient, expressed as a percentage, obtained by dividing the net payment amount by the discounted present value
of the payments; and
- (H) the amount of any penalty and the aggregate amount of any liquidated damages, including penalties, payable by the
payee in the event of a breach of the transfer agreement by the payee;
- (4) the payee has established that the transfer is in the best interests of the payee and the payee's dependents;
- (5) the payee has received independent professional advice regarding the legal, tax, and financial implications of the
transfer;
- (6) the transferee has given written notice of the transferee's name, address, and taxpayer identification number to the
annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor and has filed a copy of the notice with the court; and
- (7) the transfer agreement provides that any disputes between the parties will be governed, interpreted, construed, and
enforced in accordance with the laws of this state and that the domicile state of the payee is the proper venue to
bring any cause of action arising out of a breach of the agreement; the transfer agreement must also provide that the
parties agree to the jurisdiction of any court of competent jurisdiction located in this state.
- (b) If the transfer would contravene the terms of the structured settlement, upon the filing of a written objection by any
interested party and after considering the objection and any response to it, the court may grant, deny, or impose
conditions upon the proposed transfer as the court considers just and proper under the facts and circumstances in
accordance with established principles of law. Any order approving a transfer must require that the transferee
indemnify the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor for any liability including reasonable costs and
attorney fees arising from compliance by the issuer or obligor with the order of the court.
- (c) A provision in a transfer agreement giving a transferee power to confess judgment against a payee is unenforceable to
the extent the amount of the judgment would exceed the amount paid by the transferee to the payee, less any payments
received from the structured settlement obligor or the payee.
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