A bond belonging to an individual may be reissued in any authorized form of registration upon an appropriate request for the purposes outlined below.
(a) Single ownership.
A bond registered in single ownership form may be reissued—
(1)
To add a coowner or beneficiary; or
(2)
To name a new owner, with or without a coowner or beneficiary, but only if:
(i)
The new owner is related to the previous owner by blood (including legal adoption) or marriage;
(ii)
The previous owner and the new owner are parties to a divorce or annulment; or
(iii)
The new sole owner is the trustee of a personal trust estate which was created by the previous owner or which designates as beneficiary either the previous owner or a person related to him or her by blood (including legal adoption) or marriage.
(b) Coownership—
(1) Reissue—to name a related individual as owner or coowner.
During the lifetime of both coowners, a coownership bond may be reissued in the name of another individual related by blood (including legal adoption) or marriage to either coowner:
(ii)
As owner with one of the original coowners as beneficiary, or
(iii)
As a new coowner with one of the original coowners.
(2) Reissue—to name either coowner alone or with another individual as coowner or beneficiary.
During the lifetime of both coowners, a coownership bond may be reissued in the name of either coowner alone or with another individual as coowner or beneficiary if:
(i)
After issue of the submitted bond, either coowner named thereon marries, or the coowners are divorced or legally separated from each other, or their marriage is annulled; or
(ii)
Both coowners on the submitted bond are related by blood (including legal adoption) or marriage to each other.
(3) Reissue—to name the trustee of a personal trust estate.
A bond registered in coownership form may be reissued to name a trustee of a personal trust estate created by either coowner or by some other person if:
(i)
Either coowner is a beneficiary of the trust, or (ii) a beneficiary of the trust is related by blood or marriage to either coowner.
(c) Beneficiary.
A bond registered in beneficiary form may be reissued:
(1)
To name the beneficiary as coowner;
(2)
To substitute another individual as beneficiary; or
(3)
To eliminate the beneficiary, and, if the beneficiary is eliminated, to effect any of the reissues authorized by paragraph (a) of this section.