1.  A power of appointment is created only if:

Ask a will, trust or estate question, get an answer ASAP!
Thousands of highly rated, verified estate & trust lawyers.
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 162B.200

  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.

(a) The instrument creating the power is valid under applicable law; and

(b) The terms of the instrument creating the power manifest the donor‘s intent to create in a powerholder a power of appointment over the appointive property exercisable in favor of a permissible appointee.

2.  A power of appointment may not be created in a deceased individual.

3.  Subject to an applicable rule against perpetuities, a power of appointment may be created in an unborn or unascertained powerholder.