(1) A fiduciary of a terminating income interest shall determine the amount of net income and net principal receipts received from property specifically given to a beneficiary under the rules in sections 20 through 43 of this chapter that apply to trustees and the rules in subdivision (5). The fiduciary shall distribute the net income and net principal receipts to the beneficiary who is to receive the specific property.

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(A) including in net income all income from property used to discharge liabilities;

(B) paying from income or principal, in the fiduciary’s discretion:

(i) fees of attorneys, accountants, and fiduciaries;

(ii) court costs and other expenses of administration; and

(iii) interest on death taxes;

but the fiduciary may pay those expenses from income of property passing to a trust for which the fiduciary claims an estate tax marital or charitable deduction only to the extent that the payment of those expenses from income will not cause the reduction or loss of the deduction; and

(C) paying from principal all other disbursements made or incurred in connection with the winding up of a terminating income interest, including debts; funeral expenses; disposition of remains; family allowances; and death taxes and related penalties that are apportioned to the terminating income interest by the terms of the trust or applicable law.

(3) If a beneficiary is to receive a pecuniary amount outright from a trust after an income interest ends and no interest or other amount is provided for by the terms of the trust or applicable law, the fiduciary shall distribute the interest or other amount to which the beneficiary would be entitled under applicable law if the pecuniary amount were required to be paid under a will.

(4) A fiduciary shall distribute the net income remaining after distributions required by subdivision (3) in the manner described in section 19 of this chapter to all residuary beneficiaries, even if the beneficiary holds an unqualified power to withdraw assets from the trust or other presently exercisable general power of appointment over the trust.

(5) A fiduciary may not reduce principal or income receipts from property described in subdivision (1) because of a payment described in section 38 or 39 of this chapter to the extent that the terms of the trust or applicable law requires the fiduciary to make the payment from assets other than the property or to the extent that the fiduciary recovers or expects to recover the payment from a third party. The net income and principal receipts from the property are determined by:

(A) including all of the amounts the fiduciary receives or pays with respect to the property, whether those amounts accrued or became due before, on, or after the date of an income interest’s terminating event; and

(B) making a reasonable provision for amounts that the fiduciary believes the terminating income interest may become obligated to pay after the property is distributed.

     (b) For purposes of this section, the interest of a settlor in a revocable living trust ends and becomes a terminating income interest when the settlor dies. Property that:

(1) becomes part of the trust by reason of the settlor’s death; or

(2) is distributed to the trust from the settlor’s estate;

becomes part of the terminating income interest when the property is received by the trust.

     (c) For purposes of this section, a decedent‘s estate is not a terminating income interest.

As added by P.L.84-2002, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.61-2006, SEC.6; P.L.51-2014, SEC.13.