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How to designate beneficiaries at Webull

Beneficiaries are managed online

The key to protecting your Webull investment accounts is making sure each one has a transfer mechanism in place—either a beneficiary designation. Without one, the account goes through probate, adding time, cost, and court involvement for your family.

Webull has 8 investment accounts with different estate transfer rules. Here is how beneficiary designations, trust ownership, and probate apply to each one.

Beneficiary form at Webull

Transfer on Death (TOD) Beneficiary Designation Form.

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Webull Individual Brokerage Account (Cash)Webull Individual Brokerage Account (Margin)Webull Joint AccountWebull Entity Account (LLC/Corp)
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Open Beneficiary Information
  • App: tap Menu, then Settings, select Account Management, and tap Beneficiary Information
  • Lite Mode: tap the head and shoulders icon, select Account Management under Account Features, and tap Beneficiary Information
  • Website: go to My Account, select Manage My Account for the account, and select View Details next to Beneficiary Information
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Add primary and contingent beneficiaries
  • At least one primary beneficiary must be named before any contingent beneficiary
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To remove all beneficiaries, select Revoke on the Beneficiaries page and confirm; both primary and contingent beneficiaries are removed

Required Documents

  • Transfer on Death (TOD) Beneficiary Designation Form, completed
  • Any additional documentation Webull requests

What Webull says about beneficiaries and trusts

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

Which accounts take a beneficiary2

Investment account

TOD beneficiaries can be designated for Individual Cash and Margin accounts.1

IRA

Beneficiaries can be designated for IRAs.1

Who can be named3

A person

Beneficiaries must be legal adults (18 or older) with a valid U.S. address and a Tax Identification Number.1

A minor

A minor cannot be named; beneficiaries must be legal adults (18 or older).1

A trust

Because beneficiaries must be legal adults (18 or older), a trust cannot be named as a Webull beneficiary.1

How many beneficiaries, and how shares are split

All accounts

Up to six primary and six contingent beneficiaries can be named. Share totals must equal 100%; fractional percentages or dollar amounts are not accepted.1, 2

What a designation takes to be effective

All accounts

The spouse's approval is required if the spouse or the account owner lives in a community property or marital property state and the spouse is not named as the sole primary beneficiary.2

Beneficiary forms Webull issues1

What Webull's agreement says about beneficiaries2

When a designation takes effect

Each TOD form is subject to review and acceptance by Webull. No TOD designation is effective until the form and any additional requested documentation has been received and accepted.2

Divorce

Marriage, remarriage, dissolution of remarriage or adoption does not automatically add or revoke a designation. A new TOD form must be submitted.2

State requirements Webull statesLouisiana, PR

Louisiana

Webull names Louisiana as an ineligible region for TOD designations.1

PR

Webull names Puerto Rico as an ineligible region for TOD designations.1

Which accounts a trust can hold2

Trust account

Webull lists Individual (Cash or Margin), IRA, Futures, Advisor, Entity, Joint, Event, Custodial (UTMA/UGMA) and Crypto accounts. A trust account is not among them.3

Webull does not accept wires from trust accounts, and a joint account cannot link a bank account in a trust name.4

Business account

Entity accounts are limited to LLCs, C-Corporations and S-Corporations.5

Not in Webull's published guidance3

  • Which trust documents it accepts
  • A mail or phone channel for a designation
  • A submission address for the TOD form

Sources5

SimplyTrustSimplyTrust Editorial·

Sources

Data sourced from Webull primary sources (9 pages reviewed). How we research.

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