[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: 38CFR12.2]

[Page 549]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 12_DISPOSITION OF VETERAN'S PERSONAL FUNDS AND 
 
Sec.  12.2  Designee cases; incompetent veterans.

    (a) An incompetent veteran will not be informed concerning the 
designation of a person to receive funds or effects; but if he or she 
has a guardian the guardian will be requested to make such designation 
of himself or herself or another person to receive possession of the 
funds and effects (other than funds deposited by the Department of 
Veterans Affairs in Personal Funds of Patients which were derived from 
gratuitous benefits under laws administered by the Department of 
Veterans Affairs) upon the incompetent's death. The guardian will sign 
the letter designating himself or herself or another person with the 
veteran's name ``By ----------, guardian of his or her estate''.
    (b) No effort will be made to obtain a designation by or on behalf 
of an incompetent veteran who has no guardian.

[13 FR 7128, Nov. 27, 1948, as amended at 25 FR 1613, Feb. 25, 1960]