KRS 454.431: Requirement for court approval of transfer of structured settlement

payment rights -- Express findings that are required.

No transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall be effective and no structured

settlement obligor or annuity issuer sha ll be required to make any payment directly or

indirectly to any transferee of any transfer of structured settlement payment rights unless

the transfer has been approved in advance in an order of a court of competent jurisdiction,

based on the court's express findings that:

(1) The transfer complies with the requirements of KRS 454.430 to 454.435 and does

not contravene other applicable law;

(2) Not less than ten (10) days prior to the date on which the payee entered into the

transfer agreement, the transfe ree has provided to the payee a disclosure statement

in bold type, no smaller than fourteen (14) point, setting forth:

(a) The amounts and due dates of the structured settlement payments to be

transferred;

(b) The aggregate amount of the payments;

(c) The discounted present value of the payments, together with the discount rate

or rates used in determining the discounted present value;

(d) The gross amount payable to the payee in exchange for the payments;

(e) An itemized listing of all brokers' commissions , service charges, application

or processing fees, closing costs, filing or administrative charges, legal fees,

notary fees and other commissions, fees, costs, expenses, and charges payable

by the payee or deductible from the gross amount otherwise payable to the

payee; and

(f) The amount of any penalty and the aggregate amount of any liquidated

damages, including penalties, payable by the payee in the event of any breach

of the transfer agreement by the payee;

(3) The payee has established that the transfe r is necessary to enable the payee to avoid

imminent financial hardship;

(4) The transferee has given written notice of the transferee's name, address, and

taxpayer identification number to the annuity issuer and the structured settlement

obligor and had filed a copy of the notice with the court; and

(5) The payee has consented in writing to the transfer.