43-8-253
Section 43-8-253 Effect of homicide on intestate succession, wills, joint assets, life insurance and beneficiary designations; effect of bona fide purchase by third party or good faith payment by obligor, etc. (a) A surviving spouse, heir or devisee who feloniously and intentionally kills the decedent is not entitled to any benefits under the will or under articles 3 through 10 of this chapter, and the estate of decedent passes as if the killer had predeceased the decedent. Property appointed by the will of the decedent to or for the benefit of the killer passes as if the killer had predeceased the decedent. (b) Any joint tenant who feloniously and intentionally kills another joint tenant thereby effects a severance of the interest of the decedent so that the share of the decedent passes as his property and the killer has no rights by survivorship. This provision applies to joint tenancies with the right of survivorship and tenancies in common during the respective lives of the...
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45-8A-22.115
Section 45-8A-22.115 Compensation for purposes of benefit calculations. (a) Compensation. For purposes of calculating contributions to the plan in accordance with Section 45-8A-22.109 and benefits paid under the plan in accordance with Section 45-8A-22.113, Section 45-8A-22.116, and Section 45-8A-22.119, "compensation" shall include all of the following amounts: (1) Regular salary, including accumulated vacation pay. (2) Overtime pay. (3) Longevity pay. (4) Comp pay. (5) Any differential wage payment, as defined in Code Section 3401(h)(2), generally relating to military pay. Bonuses and paid accumulated sick leave, expense allowances, and any other non-regular forms of compensation are excluded. (b) Compliance with Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(17). Compensation of each participant taken into account in determining benefit accruals in any plan year beginning after December 31, 2001, shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), or such other amount provided in the...
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30-4-17
Section 30-4-17 Revocation of certain transferable interests in property upon divorce or annulment. (a) In this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) DISPOSITION OR APPOINTMENT OF PROPERTY. Includes a transfer of an item of property or any other benefit to a beneficiary designated in a governing instrument. (2) DIVORCE or ANNULMENT. Any divorce or annulment, or any dissolution or declaration of invalidity of a marriage, that would exclude the spouse as a surviving spouse within the meaning of Section 43-8-252. A decree of separation that does not terminate the status of husband and wife is not a divorce for purposes of this section. (3) DIVORCED INDIVIDUAL. An individual whose marriage has been terminated by divorce or annulment. (4) GOVERNING INSTRUMENT. An instrument executed by the divorced individual before the divorce or annulment of his or her marriage to his or her former spouse. (5) RELATIVE OF THE DIVORCED INDIVIDUAL'S FORMER SPOUSE. An individual who...
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45-37-123.22
Section 45-37-123.22 Powers and duties of the pension board. (a) The pension board shall be responsible for the general administration and proper operation of the plan, and shall administer the plan for the exclusive benefit of the members and their beneficiaries, subject to the specific terms of the plan. The pension board shall administer the plan in accordance with its terms and shall have the power and discretion to construe the terms of the plan and the act and to determine all questions arising in connection with the administration, interpretation, and application of the plan. Any such determination by the pension board shall be conclusive and binding upon all persons. The pension board may establish procedures, correct any defect, supply any information, or reconcile any inconsistency in such manner and to such extent as shall be deemed necessary or advisable to carry out the purpose of the plan; provided, however, that any procedure, discretionary act, interpretation, or...
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45-8A-22.111
Section 45-8A-22.111 Participant eligibility for benefits. A participant's service with the City of Anniston as a sworn police officer or a sworn firefighter is used to determine the participant's eligibility for a benefit from the plan and the amount of benefits that the participant may be entitled to receive. Unless provided otherwise, service shall be based on a continuous period beginning on the first day of employment as a sworn police officer or a sworn firefighter and ending on the participant's date of retirement, or if earlier, his or her date of termination of employment or date of death. No service is credited for any partial years of service. If the participant's employment with the City of Anniston as a sworn police officer or a sworn firefighter terminates prior to becoming eligible for retirement, he or she will lose any service credited under the plan. (Act 2012-484, p. 1349, ยง12.)...
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6-10-86
Section 6-10-86 Report of appraisers or commissioners - Exceptions; notice of time set for hearing thereon. When any homestead or other exemption has been allotted or set apart by the appraisers or by commissioners, the personal representative, surviving spouse, minor child or children, or other person in interest feeling aggrieved may, within 30 days after the making of the report, file written exceptions thereto, stating the grounds of such exceptions. Thereupon the court must fix a day for the hearing of the exceptions, of which 10 days' notice must be given by personal service, if the adverse parties reside in the state or, if they reside out of the state, by publication in some newspaper published in the county. If the exceptions are filed by the surviving spouse and minor child or children, or either, such notice must be served on the personal representative, but if filed by the personal representative or other person, the notice must be served on the surviving spouse, if there...
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11-40-18.1
Section 11-40-18.1 Minimum benefits under certain policemen's and firemen's pension and relief plans. Notwithstanding any other laws, in Class 1 municipalities, any benefit payable on a monthly basis to a participant or retiree under the Policemen's Pension and Relief Fund provided by Act No. 502 of the 1923 Session of the Legislature, as amended, the Firemen's Pension and Relief Fund provided by Act No. 307 of the 1943 Session of the Legislature, as amended, the Separate Policemen's Retirement and Relief System provided by Act No. 470 of the 1955 Regular Session of the Legislature, as amended, or the Separate Firemen's Pension and Relief System provided by Act No. 217 of the 1966 Special Session of the Legislature, as amended, shall be in an amount not less than five hundred fifty dollars ($550) per month, and any survivor's or spouse's benefit payable therefrom on a monthly basis shall be in an amount not less than three hundred twenty dollars ($320) per month. (Acts 1994, No....
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26-1A-217
Section 26-1A-217 Gifts. (a) In this section, a gift "for the benefit of" a person includes a gift to a trust, an account under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act, and a tuition savings account or prepaid tuition plan as defined under Internal Revenue Code Section 529, 26 U.S.C. Section 529, as amended. (b) Unless the power of attorney otherwise expressly provides, language in a power of attorney granting general authority with respect to gifts authorizes the agent only to: (1) make outright to, or for the benefit of, a person including the agent, a gift of any of the principal's property, including by the exercise of a presently exercisable general power of appointment held by the principal, in an amount per donee not to exceed the annual dollar limits of the federal gift tax exclusion under Internal Revenue Code Section 2503(b), 26 U.S.C. Section 2503(b), as amended, without regard to whether the federal gift tax exclusion applies to the gift, or if the principal's spouse agrees to...
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45-37-123.101
Section 45-37-123.101 Postretirement joint survivorship pension. (a) Election of postretirement joint survivorship pension. In lieu of a benefit under subsections (a) to (c), inclusive, of Section 45-37-123.100, superannuation retirement benefit, early retirement benefit, or deferred retirement benefit, respectively, a member may elect to receive a postretirement joint survivorship pension. (1) PERCENTAGE ELECTION. In the event that a member desires to elect pursuant to this subsection to receive a postretirement joint survivorship pension, he or she shall elect one of the following percentages, which election shall be the actuarial equivalent of the monthly retirement benefit provided in subsections (a) to (c), inclusive, of Section 45-37-123.100, as applicable: a. Reduced monthly benefit payable over the life of the member and the life of the member's designated beneficiary, 50 percent postretirement joint survivorship pension. b. Reduced monthly benefit payable over the life of the...
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45-37-123.108
Section 45-37-123.108 Direct rollovers. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, this section shall be effective as of January 1, 1993. (1) ROLLOVERS GENERALLY. a. Notwithstanding any provision of the plan to the contrary that would otherwise limit a distributee's election under this section, a distributee, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the pension board, may elect to have any portion of an eligible rollover distribution that is equal to at least two hundred dollars ($200) paid directly to an eligible retirement plan specified by the distributee in a direct rollover. b. For purposes of this subdivision, the following definitions shall apply: 1.(i) An eligible rollover distribution is any distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the credit of the distributee, except that an eligible rollover distribution does not include: Any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments, not less frequently than annually, made...
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