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[CITE: 38USC1953]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
                          CHAPTER 19--INSURANCE
 
         SUBCHAPTER II--UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE
 
Sec. 1953. Assignments

    Any person to whom United States Government life insurance shall be 
payable may assign such person's interest in such insurance to the 
spouse, child, grandchild, parent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, 
niece, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law of the insured. Insofar as 
applicable, the definitions contained in section 3 of the World War 
Veterans' Act, 1924, in effect on December 31, 1958, shall apply to this 
section.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1161, Sec. 753; Pub. L. 96-128, 
title III, Sec. 304, Nov. 28, 1979, 93 Stat. 986; renumbered Sec. 1953, 
Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

                       References in Text

    Section 3 of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, referred to in text, 
is section 3 of act June 7, 1924, ch. 320, 43 Stat. 607, which was 
classified to section 424 of former Title 38, Pensions, Bonuses, and 
Veterans' Relief, and which was repealed and the provisions thereof 
reenacted as section 101 of this title by Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 
72 Stat. 1105.


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 753 of this title as this 
section.
    1979--Pub. L. 96-128 substituted ``such person's'' for ``his''.


                    Effective Date of 1979 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-128 effective Nov. 28, 1979, see section 
601(b) of Pub. L. 96-128, set out as a note under section 1114 of this 
title.
