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Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits

Part IV · Chapter 55 — Minors, Incompetents, and Other Wards

§ 5506. Definition of “fiduciary”

Statutory text

For purposes of this chapter and chapter 61 of this title, the term “fiduciary” means—

(1)

a person who is a guardian, curator, conservator, committee, or person legally vested with the responsibility or care of a claimant (or a claimant’s estate) or of a beneficiary (or a beneficiary’s estate); or

(2)

any other person having been appointed in a representative capacity to receive money paid under any of the laws administered by the Secretary for the use and benefit of a minor, incompetent, or other beneficiary.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2004

    Pub. L. 108–454 title V § 501(a)(1) · 118 Stat. 3598

    Enacted · 38 U.S.C. § 5506

    (Added Pub. L. 108–454, title V, § 501(a)(1), Dec. 10, 2004, 118 Stat. 3617.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Added Pub. L. 108–454, title V, § 501(a)(1), Dec. 10, 2004, 118 Stat. 3617.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Chapter 55 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 5506. Definition of ‘fiduciary’   “For purposes of this chapter and chapter 61 of this title, the term ‘fiduciary’ means— “(1) a person who is a guardian, curator, conservator, committee, or person legally vested with the responsibility or care of a claimant (or a claimant’s estate) or of a beneficiary (or a beneficiary’s estate); or “(2) any other person having been appointed in a representative capacity to receive money paid under any of the laws administered by the Secretary for the use and benefit of a minor, incompetent, or other beneficiary.” .

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the seventh month beginning after , see section 507(a) of Pub. L. 108–454, set out as an Effective Date of 2004 Amendment note under section 5312 of this title.

Credits

(Added Pub. L. 108–454, title V, § 501(a)(1), , 118 Stat. 3617.)

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