Wisconsin Code § 895.70

General provisions
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(1) The provisions of this
subchapter may not be waived by any payee.
(2) Any transfer agreement entered into by a payee who resides in this state shall provide that disputes under such transfer
agreement, including any claim that the payee has breached the
agreement, may be determined in and under the laws of this state.
No transfer agreement may authorize the transferee or any other
party to confess judgment or consent to entry of judgment against
the payee.
(3) No transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall
extend to any payments that are life contingent unless, prior to the
date on which the payee signs the transfer agreement, the transferee has established and has agreed to maintain procedures reasonably satisfactory to the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor for periodically confirming the payee’s survival,
and giving the annuity issuer and the structured settlement
obligor prompt written notice in the event of the payee’s death.
(4) No payee who proposes to make a transfer of structured
settlement payment rights shall incur any penalty, forfeit any application fee or other payment, or otherwise incur any liability to
the proposed transferee or any assignee based on any failure of
such transfer to satisfy the conditions of this subchapter.
(5) This subchapter may not be construed to authorize any
transfer of structured settlement payment rights in contravention
of any law.
(6) Compliance with the requirements set forth in ss. 895.66
and 895.67 shall be solely the responsibility of the transferee in
any transfer of structured settlement payment rights, and neither
the structured settlement obligor nor the annuity issuer shall bear
any responsibility for, or any liability arising from, noncompliance with such requirements or failure to fulfill such conditions.
(7) Following any transfer of structured settlement payment
rights under this subchapter, any further transfer of structured settlement payment rights by the payee may be made only after compliance with all of the requirements of this subchapter, at the time
of such further transfer.

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