Utah Code § 75A-4-309

Capture doctrine -- Disposition of ineffectively appointed property under general power.

Last amended: 2024Year: 2026Length: 124 wordsOfficial source
To the extent a powerholder of a general power of appointment, other than a power to withdraw property from, revoke, or amend a trust, makes an ineffective appointment: (1) the gift-in-default clause controls the disposition of the ineffectively appointed property; or (2) if there is no gift-in-default clause or to the extent the clause is ineffective, the ineffectively appointed property: (a) passes to: (i) the powerholder if the powerholder is a permissible appointee and is living; or (ii) if the powerholder is an impermissible appointee or is deceased, the powerholder's estate if the estate is a permissible appointee; or (b) if there is no taker under Subsection (2)(a), passes under a reversionary interest to the donor or the donor's transferee or successor in interest.
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