701.21 Income payments and accumulations. - Wisconsin Statutes

701.21

701.21 Income payments and accumulations.

701.21(1)

(1) Distribution of income. Except as otherwise determined by the trustee or a court under s. 701.20 (4g) with respect to unitrust distributions, if a beneficiary is entitled to receive income from a trust, but the creating instrument fails to specify how frequently it is to be paid, the trustee shall distribute at least annually the income to which such beneficiary is entitled.

701.21(2)

(2) Permitted accumulations. No provision directing or authorizing accumulation of trust income shall be invalid.

701.21(3)

(3) Charitable trust accumulations. A trust containing a direction or authorization to accumulate income from property devoted to a charitable purpose shall be subject to the general equitable supervision of the court with respect to any such accumulation of income, including its reasonableness, amount and duration.

701.21(4)

(4) Disposition of accumulated income. Income not required to be distributed by the creating instrument, in the absence of a governing provision in the instrument, may in the trustee's discretion be held in reserve for future distribution as income or be added to principal subject to retransfer to income of the dollar amount originally transferred to principal; but at the termination of the income interest, any undistributed income shall be distributed as principal.

701.21 - ANNOT.

History: 2005 a. 10.