N.M. Stat. § 46-3A-409
Deferred compensation, annuities and similar payments.
A. As used in this section:
(1)
"payment" means a payment that a trustee may receive over a fixed
number of years or during the life of one or more individuals because of services
rendered or property transferred to the payer in exchange for future payments. The term
includes a payment made in money or property from the payer's general assets or from
a separate fund created by the payer. For purposes of Subsections D, E, F and G of this
section, "payment" also includes any payment from any separate fund, regardless of the
reason for the payment; and
(2)
"separate fund" includes a private or commercial annuity, an individual
retirement account and a pension, profit-sharing, stock-bonus or stock-ownership plan.
B. To the extent that a payment is characterized as interest or a dividend or a
payment made in lieu of interest or a dividend, a trustee shall allocate the payment to
income. The trustee shall allocate to principal the balance of the payment and any other
payment received in the same accounting period that is not characterized as interest, a
dividend or an equivalent payment.
C. If no part of a payment is characterized as interest, a dividend or an equivalent
payment, and all or part of the payment is required to be made, a trustee shall allocate
to income ten percent of the part that is required to be made during the accounting
period and the balance to principal. If no part of a payment is required to be made or the
payment received is the entire amount to which the trustee is entitled, the trustee shall
allocate the entire payment to principal. For purposes of this subsection, a payment is
not "required to be made" to the extent that it is made because the trustee exercises a
right of withdrawal.
D. Except as otherwise provided in Subsection E of this section, Subsections F and
G of this section apply and Subsections B and C of this section do not apply in
determining the allocation of a payment made from a separate fund to:
(1)
a trust to which an election to qualify for a marital deduction pursuant to
Section 2056(b)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, has been
made; or
(2)
a trust that qualifies for the marital deduction pursuant to Section
2056(b)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
E. Subsections D, F and G of this section do not apply if, and to the extent that, the
series of payments would, without the application of Subsection D of this section, qualify
for the marital deduction pursuant to Section 2056(b)(7)(C) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended.
F. A trustee shall determine the internal income of each separate fund for the
accounting period as if the separate fund were a trust subject to the Uniform Principal
and Income Act. Upon request of the surviving spouse, the trustee shall demand that
the person administering the separate fund distribute the internal income to the trust.
The trustee shall allocate a payment from the separate fund to income to the extent of
the internal income of the separate fund and distribute that amount to the surviving
spouse. The trustee shall allocate the balance of the payment to principal. Upon request
of the surviving spouse, the trustee shall allocate principal to income to the extent the
internal income of the separate fund exceeds payments made from the separate fund to
the trust during the accounting period.
G. If a trustee cannot determine the internal income of a separate fund but can
determine the value of the separate fund, the internal income of the separate fund is
deemed to equal four percent of the fund's value according to the most recent statement
of value preceding the beginning of the accounting period. If the trustee can determine
neither the internal income of the separate fund nor the fund's value, the internal income
of the fund is deemed to equal the product of the interest rate and the present value of
the expected future payments as determined pursuant to Section 7520 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, for the month preceding the accounting period for
which the computation is made.
H. This section does not apply to a payment to which Section 46-3A-410 NMSA
1978 applies.