---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 179.5"
title: "25"
number: "179.5"
heading: "What documents will BIA use to record termination of a life estate?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/179.5"
---

# §179.5. What documents will BIA use to record termination of a life estate?


The Agency will file a copy of the relinquishment of the interest or death certificate with the BIA Land Title and Records Office for recording upon receipt of one of the following:

- (a) The life estate holder's relinquishment of an interest in trust or restricted property; or
- (b) Notice of death of a person who is the measuring life for the life estate in trust or restricted property.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 86 Stat. 530; 86 Stat. 744; 94 Stat. 537; 96 Stat. 2515; 25 U.S.C. 2, 9, 372, 373, 487, 607, and 2201 et seq.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 67286, Nov. 13, 2008, unless otherwise noted.