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An active duty member can leave their insurance policy to Santa Claus if that's who they name. There are no restricions on that. Even married personnel... You want to name your beneficiary as the nice old lady that bakes you cookies from home, nothing saying you can't.

As long as the fiance was listed as a beneficiary of that life insurance then there no one can argue with that. All you have to do is to prove that the fiance is the beneficiary of his life insurance. Then, you have to coordinate with the life insurance company.

A servicemember can make anyone they want to be the beneficiary of his life insurance policy. There is no restrictions. Being a life insurance policy beneficiary does not entitle that person to any other benefits.

The service member can write who ever he wants in the little box................for instance even though my son is married 60% comes to me and 40% goes to his wife [same goes for her insurance money] and out of the 60% I get I have a huge list of what he wants done and who gets what..............

If single the service member can leave his/her life insurance policy to his girlfriend, boyfriend, parents, siblings, grandparents, BFF, charity or even his/her dog if they wish to

Only if they are married and they do not name their spouse is it a problem and the spouse will receive notification someone else was named.

Yes

Yes

The caveat is that if you ARE married and you choose a beneficiary other than your spouse...your spouse will get a notification letter by certified mail letting her/him know you chose a beneficiary other than her/him...it will not say who it is..just that it isn't the spouse.

They changed that a few years ago after Joe Snuffy had his stripper gf down and never changed it after he got married and went and got killed in Iraq.

You can set up your beneficiaries to be whomever you want. If you are married...and send it to a girlfriend....there is going to be a court battle.

Semper Fidelis,

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Anyone he wants.

No