(a) Unless a governing instrument specifically refers to this section and provides otherwise, a trustee who makes an election under 26 U.S.C. § 2056, 2056A, or 2523 (Internal Revenue Code), or who makes an allocation under 26 U.S.C. § 2632 (Internal Revenue Code), may benefit personally from the election or allocation and is not required to reimburse another person interested in the election or allocation, to make an equitable adjustment, or to treat interested persons impartially with respect to the election or allocation.
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 13.36.169

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(b) Unless a governing instrument specifically refers to this section and provides otherwise, if an election is made under 26 U.S.C. § 2056, 2056A, or 2523 (Internal Revenue Code), if an allocation is made under 26 U.S.C. § 2632 (Internal Revenue Code), or if division of a trust benefits the persons interested in the trust, the trustee may divide the trust into two or more separate trusts of equal or unequal value if the terms of the separate resulting trusts are substantially identical to the terms of the trust before the division. The allocation of assets must be based on the fair market value of the assets at the time of the division.
(c) Except as provided in (d) of this section, this section applies to

(1) a trust that is created on or after August 9, 2000; or
(2) the decisions and actions of a trust that is in existence on August 9, 2000 if the decisions are made or actions occur on or after August 9, 2000.
(d) The application provisions of (c) of this section do not apply if

(1) the terms of the trust, including the terms as amended, expressly provide that this section does not apply and either specifically refer to this section or otherwise clearly demonstrate the intent that this section does not apply; or
(2) the trust is irrevocable and all parties in interest elect not to be subject to the application of this section; an election under this paragraph must be made on or before January 1, 2003, or three years after the date on which the trust becomes irrevocable, whichever date is later; however, notwithstanding Alaska Stat. § 13.36.080, the trustee does not have a duty to inform the parties in interest of this election; the election allowed under this paragraph must be made by a written declaration delivered to the trustee.
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