Delaware Code § 18-2705

Insurable interest; exception when certain institutions designated beneficiary
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(a) Life insurance contracts may be entered into in which the person paying the consideration for the insurance has no insurable interest
in the life of the individual insured, where charitable, benevolent, educational or religious institutions, or their agencies, are designated
irrevocably as the beneficiaries thereof.

(b) In making such contracts the person paying the premium shall make and sign the application therefor as owner and shall designate
a charitable, benevolent, educational or religious institution, or an agency thereof, irrevocably as the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such
contract. The application shall be signed also by the individual whose life is to be insured.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit any combination of the applicant, premium payer, owner and beneficiary from
being the same person.
(d) Such a contract shall be valid and binding among the parties thereto, notwithstanding the absence otherwise of an insurable interest
in the life of the individual insured.

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