
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
Required Documents
- Written trust agreement naming the trustee
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
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
Phone: 1-502-625-1005
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
Sources
Data sourced from Stock Yards Bank primary sources (23 pages reviewed). How we research.
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