In Re Ebenger’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[T]he proceeds of annuity contracts issued to citizens or residents of the state, upon whatever form, shall not in any ease be liable to attachment, garnishment or legal process in favor of any creditor of the person whose life is so insured or of any creditor of the person who is the beneficiary of such annuity contract, unless ... the annuity contract was effected for the benefit of such creditor. [Emphasis added).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Benedict · In Re McCollam

2. “I reject the trustee’s construction of the statute and agree with the debtor that the Florida legislature intended to exempt the value of annuity contracts from the claims of creditors not only of third party beneficiaries under the annuity contract but also of the annuitant. The term “beneficiary” is not a term of art necessarily restricted to those who receive a benefit upon the death of another (as the trustee argues here). The term is, for example, defined in the Restatement, Trusts 2d § 3(4,): “The person for whose benefit property is held in trust is the beneficiary.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Zeitz