# Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance-Slayer's Rule Exclusion
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2016-04-12 · Effective 2016-04-12 · 81 FR 21465
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-08381
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 21465
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 9
- **Publication date:** 2016-04-12
- **Effective date:** 2016-04-12
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs adopts as final, without change, the final rule seeking comments published on October 3, 2012, amending its regulations governing Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) and Veterans' Group Life Insurance (VGLI). Specifically, this rule prohibits paying insurance proceeds because of the death of a person (decedent) whose life was insured under SGLI or VGLI, or paying a SGLI Traumatic Injury Protection (TSGLI) benefit to a person (slayer) convicted of intentionally and wrongfully killing the decedent or determined in a civil proceeding to intentionally and wrongfully killing the decedent. This prohibition of payment also applies to any family member of the slayer who is not related to the decedent and to any person who assisted the slayer in causing the death of the decedent. Additionally, the term "domestic partner" is removed from the definition of "member of the family".

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/04/12/2016-08381/servicemembers-group-life-insurance-and-veterans-group-life-insurance-slayers-rule-exclusion)
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