[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR12.16]

[Page 556]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 12_DISPOSITION OF VETERAN'S PERSONAL FUNDS AND 
 
Sec.  12.16  Action on inventory and funds.

    (a) The manager will dispose of the personal funds and effects as 
promptly as possible. No expense will be incurred by the Government for 
shipment of the effects.
    (b) In making disposition of funds and effects the manager will 
release the funds to the owner if living and will release the effects to 
him or her or as directed by him or her, provided that if he or she is 
incompetent and has a guardian the funds and effects will be released to 
such guardian. If the owner is deceased, and left a last will and 
testament probated under the laws of the place of his or her last legal 
domicile or under the laws of the State, territory, insular possession, 
or dependency, within which the field facility may be, the personal 
property of such decedent situated upon such premises will be released 
to the executor. If such person left on said premises funds or effects 
not disposed of by a will probated in accordance with the provisions of 
this paragraph, such property shall be released to the administrator, if 
one has been appointed.
    (c) In those cases where there is neither an administrator nor an 
executor the funds and effects will be released to the person entitled 
to inherit the personal property of the decedent under the intestacy 
laws of the State where the decedent was last domiciled.
    (d) Where disposition of the funds and effects cannot be 
accomplished under the provisions of paragraphs (b) and (c) of this 
section, the funds, at the expiration of 90 days will be deposited to 
the General Post Fund and the effects will be disposed of in accordance 
with the provisions of Sec. Sec.  12.8, 12.9, and 12.10.

[13 FR 7131, Nov. 27, 1948, as amended at 14 FR 4726, July 28, 1949]