I believe if you are the personal representative or executor of the will you would need to contact the life company providing them with original death certificate and probate papers and you ought to be able to find the worth out
generally nothing. Insured person can name another beneficiary.
A secondary beneficiary is a person who would receive the benefits of a life insurance policy or retirement plan in the event that the insured person dies and the primary beneficiary has also passed away. Then, the secondary beneficiary would receive the benefits.
In regards to life insurance, contingent usually means secondary. For example a contingent beneficiary is a secondary beneficiary, not the primary beneficiary. The contingent beneficiary would receive the proceeds from a life insurance policy if the primary beneficiary were not alive when the insured person dies.
Goes to the beneficiaries heir's or estate.
Only the person named as beneficiary on the insurance policy will receive money from that policy. Any other monies or other property in the estate would be divided up between the siblings if the parent died intestate (meaning without a will).
For an insurance policy and/or retirement benefits it goes to the beneficiary designated. For a will, there could be grounds to contest it.
The insurance proceeds would be part of their estate and would pass according to their will or by intestacy to their next-of-kin.
In that case, the money will be kept deposited with the insurance company as unclaimed amount. In absence of the beneficiary, the insurance company can pay the money to the legal heir of the policy holder, but that has to be sufficiently proved in the Court of Law.
The money would go into their estate and would pass according to their will. If there is no will the money would pass as intestate property according to the laws of intestacy where the estate is probated.
payee is a person on whose life expectancy the insurance poilicy is issued. beneficiary is a person who receives the death benefits if the insured dies
It goes to the estate
When the policy holder dies, the money goes to the beneficiary. If the beneficiary then dies, THEIR beneficiary then gets the money.