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Estate planning options at Stock Yards Bank

Estate planning for your Stock Yards Bank accounts starts with understanding how each one transfers at death. Beneficiary designations and trust retitling both bypass probate, but the right approach depends on the account type, your tax situation, and how much control you want over distributions.

Stock Yards Bank offers 18 accounts, each with its own transfer rules. The sections below cover how to set up beneficiaries, fund a trust, and which products support each approach.

No beneficiary form at Stock Yards Bank

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Contact a Stock Yards Bank branch or Customer Care.

What Stock Yards Bank says about beneficiaries and trusts

Each section is Stock Yards Bank's own statement, with the document it comes from numbered under Sources.

Which accounts take a beneficiary1

Payable-on-death account

The Terms & Conditions apply their ownership rules according to "the form of ownership and beneficiary designation, if any, specified on the account records." The bank reserves the right to refuse some forms of ownership and beneficiary designations.1

What Stock Yards Bank's agreement says about beneficiaries3

What the owner keeps while living

The person or persons who create a pay-on-death account may change beneficiaries, change account types and withdraw all or part of the funds at any time.1

Joint accounts

A Joint Account With Survivorship passes to the surviving owner or owners. A Joint Account No Survivorship creates no right of survivorship.1

Changing the owner of a policy or account

An account may not be transferred or assigned without the bank's prior written consent.1

State requirements Stock Yards Bank statesKentucky, Ohio, Indiana

Kentucky

At a Kentucky branch the pay-on-death account is a Revocable Trust or Pay-On-Death Account. A beneficiary cannot withdraw until every person who created the account has died, and two or more surviving beneficiaries own it in equal shares without right of survivorship.1

Ohio

At an Ohio branch the pay-on-death account is a Revocable Trust or Pay-On-Death Account. A beneficiary cannot withdraw until every person who created the account has died, and two or more surviving beneficiaries own it in equal shares without right of survivorship.1

Indiana

At an Indiana branch the account types are a Revocable Trust Account/In Trust For, a Pay-on-Death Account with LDPS (a beneficiary who dies first is replaced by that beneficiary's lineal descendants per stirpes) or a Pay-on-Death Account No LDPS.1

At an Indiana branch, if no beneficiary survives every person who created the account, the property belongs to the owner's estate unless it is directed to a substitute beneficiary under the LDPS rules.1

Which accounts a trust can hold1

Trust account

Under the Fiduciary Accounts clause, an account "may be opened and maintained by a person or persons named as a trustee under a written trust agreement."1, 2

Secure Checking's benefits are not available to trusts.3

What Stock Yards Bank says about trust accounts1

Review of the trust document

By merely opening a trust account, Stock Yards is not acting as a trustee and takes on no obligation to monitor or enforce the terms of the trust.1

Accounts handled elsewhere1

Stock Yards Wealth Management & Trust

Revocable, irrevocable, testamentary and charitable trusts, as trustee, successor trustee or investment manager4

Not in Stock Yards Bank's published guidance5

  • A beneficiary designation form
  • What the owner provides to name a beneficiary
  • A pay-on-death designation procedure
  • A trust account form
  • A procedure for holding an account in a trust

Sources4

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Sources

Data sourced from Stock Yards Bank primary sources (23 pages reviewed). How we research.

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A printable PDF with the steps, required documents, and contact details — verified against Stock Yards Bank primary sources. Bring it to the branch or keep it beside the phone.

Stock Yards Bank estate support

Wealth Management & Trust (Louisville & Southern Indiana office)

Wealth Management & Trust, Central & Eastern Kentucky

Wealth Management & Trust, Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky

Wealth Management & Trust, Indianapolis

Wealth Management & Trust, South Central Kentucky

Wealth Management & Trust, Western Kentucky & Evansville

Director of Trust Services

Director of Wealth Management & Trust

Death claims support1-502-582-2571
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