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[CITE: 38USC1983]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
                          CHAPTER 19--INSURANCE
 
                         SUBCHAPTER IV--GENERAL
 
Sec. 1983. Settlements for minors or incompetents

    When an optional mode of settlement of National Service Life 
Insurance or United States Government life insurance heretofore or 
hereafter matured is available to a beneficiary who is a minor or 
incompetent, such option may be exercised by such beneficiary's 
fiduciary, person qualified under the Act of February 25, 1933 (25 
U.S.C. 14), or person recognized by the Secretary as having custody of 
the person or the estate of such beneficiary, and the obligation of the 
United States under the insurance contract shall be fully satisfied by 
payment of benefits in accordance with the mode of settlement so 
selected.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1165, Sec. 783; Pub. L. 99-576, 
title VII, Sec. 701(45), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3294; Pub. L. 102-54, 
Sec. 14(b)(19), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 284; renumbered Sec. 1983 and 
amended Pub. L. 102-83, Secs. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 
Stat. 404-406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 783 of this title as this 
section and substituted ``Secretary'' for ``Administrator''.
    Pub. L. 102-54 substituted ``the Act of February 25, 1933 (25 U.S.C. 
14)'' for ``section 14 of title 25''.
    1986--Pub. L. 99-576 substituted ``such beneficiary's'' for ``his''.
