Can you change chairman to spouse/owner

[luv_maui]

My spouse & I are co -owners in abound. However, the Chairman status is under my name, can we change it to my spouse? If so, how?

 

[ljmiii]

My spouse & I are co -owners in abound. However, the Chairman status is under my name, can we change it to my spouse? If so, how?

You should both be Chairman. But if what you are really asking is can you change the Bonvoy Titanium status to your spouse the answer is yes, it can only be done once a year, and I forget the rest of the details because I never needed to know...I was two years too late to get Marriott (hotel's) Lifetime Titanium.

 

[bazzap]

My spouse & I are co -owners in abound. However, the Chairman status is under my name, can we change it to my spouse? If so, how?

Yes, as mentioned already you can make this change once per year.
As I recall we requested the change towards the end of a calendar year, in time for it to become effective January / February (early year anyway)
We just made the request by email to Owner Services..


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[Dean]

Yes, as mentioned already you can make this change once per year.
As I recall we requested the change towards the end of a calendar year, in time for it to become effective January / February (early year anyway)
We just made the request by email to Owner Services..


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My info suggests it's early in the next year usually late January but can be as late as early Feb. If one intentn is to change may as well change now and keep an eye on the status around the turn of the year. I am Lifetime Titanium so we did this a number of years ago so Kim can also be Titanium. She's close to lifetime Platinum but not quite there.

 

[GrayFal]

Put your request in via email in October/November.
They update it in January/February as others have said

 

[aklausing]

It's never really been clear to me why this matters? I am lifetime Titanium and my wife and I travel together all the time. I can see if she was booking Marriott stays and I wasn't with her, it would be good for her to be Titanium to enjoy the benefits that come with Titanium status. But since we travel together all the time, what does it matter that she doesn't have the status? We would book all our reservations under one or the other of us, so we hit the 75 Night 40K bonus, but wouldn't get enough nights over that to do us any good booking on the other person's number.

 

[ljmiii]

It's never really been clear to me why this matters? I am lifetime Titanium and my wife and I travel together all the time…

Because some of us have spouses that travel on their own. If one has significant Lifetime Marriott International status and both names are on the MVC deeds, it makes sense to assign the MVC Bonvoy status benefit to the other spouse.

 

[Dean]

Because some of us have spouses that travel on their own. If one has significant Lifetime Marriott International status and both names are on the MVC deeds, it makes sense to assign the MVC Bonvoy status benefit to the other spouse.

It may not matter to some but it might in the future. We always travel together but you never know when something will happen or she'll travel with one of our family members. For us it's all about future options. Kim should hit lifetime Platinum next year then when I change deeds to my kids, I'll put one of them as the Bonvoy account of record.

 

[dioxide45]

It's never really been clear to me why this matters? I am lifetime Titanium and my wife and I travel together all the time. I can see if she was booking Marriott stays and I wasn't with her, it would be good for her to be Titanium to enjoy the benefits that come with Titanium status. But since we travel together all the time, what does it matter that she doesn't have the status? We would book all our reservations under one or the other of us, so we hit the 75 Night 40K bonus, but wouldn't get enough nights over that to do us any good booking on the other person's number.

This will sound morbid, but it impacts more people than you might think.

There might come a time when you aren't here anymore and she is. Stuff happens and lifetime status does not transfer to a spouse upon death. So if there comes a time you are gone and she is not, then all those years she traveled with you have provided her with zero status. Since you are lifetime and you are getting the 75 nights each year, you should be putting all your stays under her name. It takes 600 elite nights and 10 years at platinum status to earn lifetime Platinum. Since you are already earning the Choice Benefit at 75 nights, you're really doubling on your status. You can still get the free night certificate with the Choice Benefit at 75 nights if you earn those nights under her name. She is also then earning nights and years toward Lifetime Bonvoy status.

It will take her a year to earn and keep Titanium status. So, you may have to have a year's worth of stays not provide you with the Titanium benefits, but it will serve her better in the long run.

I personally play a careful balancing act each year making sure stays are accumulated under my spouses or my name in order to ensure we both get to Titanium status. We are both lifetime Platinum but we each want to get the free night certificate when we reach 75 nights, so I maintain a spreadsheet to see if I need to change the name on a stay to ensure the nights post accordingly to make sure we both get there.

 

[TUGBrian]

will/can lifetime titanium status transfer to a child as well? or spouse only?

 

[dioxide45]

will/can lifetime titanium status transfer to a child as well? or spouse only?

Lifetime is literally that. Your lifetime. Once you're dead it is gone. It can't transfer to anyone.

 

[TUGBrian]

never hurts to ask =)

though if the child was on the account already, marriott would never know the parent passed away?

 

[VacationForever]

never hurts to ask =)

though if the child was on the account already, marriott would never know the parent passed away?

Lifetime status is tied to an individual Bonvoy number. It never goes away when you are alive and not transferable when you die. You don't have someone else on the account. If you are referring to MVC account, then it's a different thing, that can be transferred as long as you continue to own it. The MVC owner level Bonvoy status is transferable once a year to someone on the account.

 

[TUGBrian]

ah, yea i dont have anything bonvoy related and knew it was different than the mvc ownership (that I am on)...this thread had me curious to dig into it though!

shame that dads lifetime status cant go to mom or myself.

 

[dioxide45]

never hurts to ask =)

though if the child was on the account already, marriott would never know the parent passed away?

I don't know about years past (especially some of those early accounts), but Bonvoy accounts can't be joint. So you can't have a child, or another person, on the same account as the parent.

 

[daviator]

It's also worth noting that you can no longer make a reservation in the name of the Bonvoy elite member and then add you family member's name to the reservation and have them check in without you. This is something people used to do to essentially "share" their elite status benefits. But now the Bonvoy member on the reservation has to be there in person and prove it (show ID at the desk.) Failure to do so can get your Bonvoy account closed and your points forfeited. Or so I have read.

 

[TUGBrian]

well this begs the question, what happens to the bonvoy account of a deceased parent when say hypothetically it has millions of points in it?

id always expected marriott to be far more likely to allow owners to pass on all the benefits of ownership to children....guess bonvoy has a totally different philosophy!

 

[daviator]

well this begs the question, what happens to the bonvoy account of a deceased parent when say hypothetically it has millions of points in it?

id always expected marriott to be far more likely to allow owners to pass on all the benefits of ownership to children....guess bonvoy has a totally different philosophy!

You can transfer the Bonvoy POINTS to someone else after death. This generally is something that can be done by the executor of the estate, and requires you to provide Marriott with a copy of the death certificate and letters testamentary or other satisfactory documentation proving that you represent the estate. I went through this last year after my mother passed away. It was a pretty easy process.

Only the points are transferred. Any Bonvoy status dies with its owner. Elite night credits, NUAs, etc. do not transfer.

Full info is here: https://help.marriott.com/s/article/Article-22910

Most of the airlines also allow the deceased person's frequent flyer points to be transferred to a beneficiary after death.

 

[Dean]

It's also worth noting that you can no longer make a reservation in the name of the Bonvoy elite member and then add you family member's name to the reservation and have them check in without you. This is something people used to do to essentially "share" their elite status benefits. But now the Bonvoy member on the reservation has to be there in person and prove it (show ID at the desk.) Failure to do so can get your Bonvoy account closed and your points forfeited. Or so I have read.

Done so many times the last few years using Bonvoy points and had a family member check in. Granted this was not done to get the benefits but rather to gift the stay. I've had maybe 10 stays this year using that option all for single nights while traveling.

 

[aklausing]

We have the Chase Boundless card and get 16 Elite nights as a result of that. It's in both our names, although I may be primary. That would need to be on my wife's Bonvoy number in order to reach 75 nights per year. Any idea if that can be transferred easily?

 

[dioxide45]

We have the Chase Boundless card and get 16 Elite nights as a result of that. It's in both our names, although I may be primary. That would need to be on my wife's Bonvoy number in order to reach 75 nights per year. Any idea if that can be transferred easily?

Is it in both your names or just you as the cardholder and her as an authorized user? It isn't usually common to have a joint credit card. She can certainly apply for her own credit card and get the 15 nights each year.

 

[frank808]

I keep a spreadsheet to make sure the 3 of us hits 75 nights. I am lifetime titanium and wife and son are lifetime platinum. Well wife is lifetime titanium from our Abound ownership. Guess I could split off enough contracts to make son lifetime titanium through Abound ownership. I make sure we each hit at least 75 nights to get the free 40K award night. Easy for wife and I as we get a head start at 40 nights each with the brilliant and business Amex cards.

Three 40K bonvoy night awards, four RC and Brilliant 85K certs, two 35K SPG Amex certs and two 35K Marriott Business certs gets us 11 nights annually for non TS stays. Between Four Aspire Hilton FNC and two business FNC (which are now discontinued) we had 17 nights a year free. Now we are down to 15 free nights between Marriott and Hilton annually.

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