Oklahoma Code § 36-4213

Title 36. Insurance: Beneficiary; change of beneficiary; payment of proceeds
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A.  Each such policy shall have a space on the front or back
page of the policy for the name of the beneficiary designated; and
shall contain a reservation of the right to designate or change the
beneficiary after the issuance of the policy.
B.  The policy may also provide that no designation or change of
beneficiary shall be binding on the insurer unless endorsed on the
policy by the insurer, and that the insurer may refuse to endorse
the name of any proposed beneficiary who does not appear to the
insurer to have an insurable interest in the life of the insured.
Such a policy may also provide that if the beneficiary designated in
the policy does not surrender the policy with due proof of death
within the period stated in the policy, which shall be not less than

thirty (30) days after the death of the insured, or if the
beneficiary is the estate of the insured or is a minor, or dies
before the insured, or is not legally competent to give a valid
release, then the insurer may make payment thereunder to the
executor or administrator of the insured, or to any of the insured's
relatives by blood or legal adoption or connection by marriage, or
to any person appearing to the insurer to be equitably entitled
thereto by reason of having been named beneficiary, or by reason of
having incurred expense for the maintenance, medical attention or
burial of the insured.  Such policy may also include a similar
provision applicable to any other payment due under the policy.

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