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Defense Department form, series DD, number 462. Full title: DD Form 462, Bond of Person Designated to Act on Behalf of Incompetent Member or Former Member of the Uniformed Services, May 2003. Function: Bond of Person Designated to Act on Behalf of Incompetent Member or Former Member of the Uniformed Services. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher status: not stated.
Governing directive: not stated. Responsible office: not stated. The DD designation signals joint scope — all military departments, combatant commands and defense agencies draw on a single edition of the document.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
When the form is filed is a matter of not stated and local instruction. The description here covers the document itself and how to obtain a copy.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 1 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 28.
Distribution centres on pdf. Two states exist: fillable, where field boxes accept keyboard input and retain it, and printable, a static blank produced for manual completion. Typed data reproduces cleanly across copies; handwritten data depends on the writer.
Xfdl is present in the set. The format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms — long the Defense standard for electronic forms — and needs the matching viewer; pdf applications will report the file as unreadable.
All formats download free of charge. Pdf files open in any modern reader; interactive fields behave most predictably in a desktop application, less so in browser viewers.
What the form asks for
- Of (enter street address).
- In witness thereof, the parties hereto have executed this instrument under their several seals this day of (enter day).
- Enter month.
- (enter year), the name and corporate seal of the corporate surety being hereto affixed.
- Individual principal (seal).
- Street address.
- Street number.
- City.
- Attest:
- Street number.
- City.
- State.
- By (affix corporate seal).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
- Know all men by these presents that we (enter names).
- Enter additional names if necessary.
- In the country of (enter country).
- State.
- As principal and (enter as appropriate).
- As principal and as surety (enter additional data).
- for the use and benefit of (enter name), an incompetent,
- in the penal sum of (enter number of dollars), for the payment of which sum well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and successors, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
- The condition of this obligation is such, that the Secretary of Defense designated the principal to receive from the Government any active duty pay and allowances, or any amounts due for accumulated or accrued leave, or any retired or retainer pay, otherwise payable to (enter name), a mentally incompetent member of the uniformed services.
- In presence of (enter name of witness).
Completion runs in the order printed on the page: identifying data at the head, the body of the entry next, certification at the foot. Header data frequently governs what belongs in the fields below it.
Edition in use: not stated. Because DD forms are revised at Department level and distributed to all services at once, an obsolete printing may not match the fields an office expects. The date is printed on the form face.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Associated forms are traced by number within the series. Because the DD sequence is common to all military departments, no service qualifier is needed to identify a referenced form.
Where a DA form is cited alongside a DD form, the two belong to different systems: DA numbering is Army-specific and administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Defense-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Numbers do not translate between the systems.
Editions change because the underlying directive changes, because collection requirements are revised, or because Privacy Act language is updated. Checking the edition date at the point of download is the practical response.
Scope of this page: distribution of a published form and description of its contents. It offers no legal guidance and no assurance regarding any particular submission. Direct procedural questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 462?
- DD Form 462, Bond of Person Designated to Act on Behalf of Incompetent Member or Former Member of the Uniformed Services, May 2003
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?