Section 700.2713 - Definitions for survivorship with respect to future interests under terms of trust. - Michigan Statutes

ESTATES AND PROTECTED INDIVIDUALS CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 386 of 1998

700.2713 Definitions for survivorship with respect to future interests under terms of trust.

Sec. 2713.

As used in this section and sections 2714 to 2716:

(a) “Alternative future interest” means an expressly created future interest that can take effect in possession or enjoyment instead of another future interest on the happening of 1 or more events, including survival of an event or failure to survive an event, whether an event is expressed in condition-precedent, condition-subsequent, or another form. A residuary clause in a will does not create an alternative future interest with respect to a future interest created in a nonresiduary devise in the will, whether or not the will specifically provides that a lapsed or failed devise is to pass under the residuary clause.

(b) “Beneficiary” means the beneficiary of a future interest and includes a class member if the future interest is in the form of a class gift.

(c) “Class member” includes, but is not limited to, an individual who failed to survive the distribution date but who would have taken under a future interest in the form of a class gift had he or she survived the distribution date.

(d) “Distribution date” means, with respect to a future interest, the time when the future interest takes effect in possession or enjoyment. The distribution date does not need to occur at the beginning or end of a calendar day, but can occur at a time during the course of a day.

(e) “Future interest” includes, but is not limited to, an alternative future interest and a future interest in the form of a class gift.

(f) “Future interest under the terms of a trust” means a future interest that is created by a transfer creating a trust or to an existing trust or by an exercise of a power of appointment to an existing trust, directing the continuance of an existing trust, designating a beneficiary of an existing trust, or creating a trust.

(g) “Surviving beneficiary” or “surviving descendant” means a beneficiary or a descendant who does not predecease the distribution date and who is not considered to have predeceased the distribution date under section 2702.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
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