{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-700.2708","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.2708","heading":"Definitions regarding beneficiary designation.","body":"Sec. 2708.\n\nAs used in this section and sections 2709 to 2712:\n\n\"Alternative beneficiary designation\" means a beneficiary designation that is expressly created by the governing instrument and, under the terms of the governing instrument, can take effect instead of another beneficiary designation on the happening of 1 or more events, including survival of the decedent or failure to survive the decedent, whether an event is expressed in condition-precedent, condition-subsequent, or another form.\n\n\"Beneficiary\" means the beneficiary of a beneficiary designation under which the beneficiary must survive the decedent. Beneficiary includes a class member if the beneficiary designation is in the form of a class gift; an individual or class member who was deceased at the time the beneficiary designation was executed; and an individual or class member who was then living but who failed to survive the decedent. Beneficiary excludes a joint tenant of a joint tenancy with the right of survivorship and a party to a joint and survivorship account.\n\n\"Beneficiary designation\" includes an alternative beneficiary designation and a beneficiary designation in the form of a class gift.\n\n\"Class member\" includes an individual who fails to survive the decedent, but who would have taken under a beneficiary designation in the form of a class gift had he or she survived the decedent.\n\n\"Stepchild\" means a child of the decedent's surviving, deceased, or former spouse, and not of the decedent.\n\n\"Surviving beneficiary\" or \"surviving descendant\" means a beneficiary or a descendant who did not predecease the decedent and is not considered to have predeceased the decedent under section 2702.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 700","Act Act-386-of-1998"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-700-2708","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"a46df38af1aa03e5d5cd04cf47a50ed6c7e9676072edbd2a9e60fab3c4ed2afb","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-700.2707","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-700.2709"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}