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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63699</law_id><section_number>59.1-475.1</section_number><catch_line>Required disclosures to payee</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>59.1-475</reference><reference>59.1-477</reference><reference>59.1-477.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="41">Structured Settlement Protection Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Not less than three days prior to the date on which a <span class="dictionary">payee</span> signs a <span class="dictionary">transfer agreement</span>, the <span class="dictionary">transferee</span> shall provide to the <span class="dictionary">payee</span> a separate <span class="dictionary">disclosure statement</span>, in bold type no smaller than fourteen points, setting forth:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The amounts and due dates of the <span class="dictionary">structured settlement</span> payments to be transferred; <a id="paragraph-232014" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-475.1/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The aggregate amount of such payments; <a id="paragraph-232015" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-475.1/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The <span class="dictionary">discounted present value</span> of the payments to be transferred, which shall be identified as the &#x201C;calculation of current value of the transferred <span class="dictionary">structured settlement</span> payments under federal standards for valuing annuities,&#x201D; and the amount of the <span class="dictionary">Applicable Federal Rate</span> used in calculating such <span class="dictionary">discounted present value</span>; <a id="paragraph-232016" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-475.1/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The <span class="dictionary">gross advance amount</span>; <a id="paragraph-232017" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-475.1/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> An itemized listing of all applicable <span class="dictionary">transfer expenses</span>, other than attorney fees and related disbursements payable in connection with the <span class="dictionary">transferee</span>&#x2019;s application for approval of the transfer, and the <span class="dictionary">transferee</span>&#x2019;s best estimate of the amount of any such fees and disbursements; <a id="paragraph-232018" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-475.1/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> The effective annual interest rate, which shall be disclosed in a statement in the following form: &#x201C;On the basis of the net amount that you will receive from us and the amounts and timing of the <span class="dictionary">structured settlement</span> payments that you are transferring to us, you will in effect be paying interest to us at a rate of _____ percent per year&#x201D;; <a id="paragraph-232019" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-475.1/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="7"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> The <span class="dictionary">net advance amount</span>; <a id="paragraph-232020" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-475.1/#7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="8"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> The amount of any penalties or liquidated <span class="dictionary">damages</span> payable by the <span class="dictionary">payee</span> in the event of any breach of the <span class="dictionary">transfer agreement</span> by the <span class="dictionary">payee</span>; and <a id="paragraph-232021" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-475.1/#8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="9"><p><span class="prefix-number">9.</span> A statement that the <span class="dictionary">payee</span> has the right to cancel the <span class="dictionary">transfer agreement</span>, without <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> or further obligation, not later than the third business day after the date the agreement is signed by the <span class="dictionary">payee</span>. <a id="paragraph-232022" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-475.1/#9"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2001, c. 537; 2016, cc. 273, 739.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
