What is a life insurance policy owner?

The owner of a life insurance policy is the person or entity that pays the premiums on the policy and has the rights of ownership.

The owner is responsible for paying premiums, managing the policy, choosing the beneficiaries, and handling the oversight of ownership.

The owner may or may not be the insured. Learn more about the owner of a life insurance policy.

Anyone can own their own life insurance policy, when they are the insured person of the life insurance policy.

Sometimes people think that someone else should own their life insurance policy for tax purposes, when the possibility of their estate ever being large enough to incur estate taxes is nil, and life insurance does not incur income taxes.

But there are legitimate situations (for tax purposes and otherwise) where another person owning the life insurance policy on your ...