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Effective 5/9/2017
75-10-205. Rules of classification.

  • (1) In this section, “adverse party” means a person with a substantial beneficial interest in property that would be affected adversely by a powerholder’s exercise or nonexercise of a power of appointment in favor of the powerholder, the powerholder’s estate, a creditor of the powerholder, or a creditor of the powerholder’s estate.
  • (2) If a powerholder may exercise a power of appointment only with the consent or joinder of an adverse party, the power is nongeneral.
  • (3) If the permissible appointees of a power of appointment are not defined and limited, the power is exclusionary.

Enacted by Chapter 125, 2017 General Session