{"data":{"id":"us/45-cfr-2525.290","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"45 CFR 2525.290","heading":"What happens to an education award upon divorce or death?","body":"(a) Prohibition on treatment of an education award as marital property. An education award may not be treated as marital property, or the asset of a marital estate, subject to division in a divorce or other civil proceeding.\n(b) Death of Eligible Individual. An educational award expires and is no longer available for any purpose upon the death of the Eligible Individual, except for:\n(1) Any award or portion of the educational award the Eligible Individual transferred prior to death;\n(2) Any amount for which the Eligible Individual submitted a request for disbursement prior to death that the National Service Trust had not yet either received or acted upon as of the date of death.","path":["Title 45—Public Welfare","Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Public Welfare","CHAPTER XXV—CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE","PART 2525—NATIONAL SERVICE TRUST","Subpart D—Using an Education Award"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-45.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:21Z","sha256":"64eb1c4969146d0870d0212453398169a3d627d282fdc5a7371c87e782079455","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/45-cfr-2525.280","next":"us/45-cfr-2525.310"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}