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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 58-5005

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

(a) In this section, “power of appointment” means a power that enables a person acting in a nonfiduciary capacity to designate a recipient of an ownership interest in or another power of appointment over trust property.

(b) The Kansas uniform directed trust act does not apply to a:

(1) Power of appointment;

(2) power to appoint or remove a trustee or trust director;

(3) power of a settlor over a trust to the extent the settlor has a power to revoke the trust;

(4) power of a beneficiary over a trust to the extent the exercise or nonexercise of the power affects the beneficial interest of:

(A) The beneficiary; or

(B) another beneficiary represented by the beneficiary under Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 58a-301 through 58a-305, and amendments thereto, with respect to the exercise or nonexercise of the power; or

(5) power over a trust if:

(A) The terms of the trust provide that the power is held in a nonfiduciary capacity; and

(B) the power must be held in a nonfiduciary capacity to achieve the settlor’s tax objectives under the internal revenue code of 1986, as in effect on July 1, 2022.

(c) Unless the terms of a trust provide otherwise, a power granted to a person to designate a recipient of an ownership interest in or power of appointment over trust property which is exercisable while the person is not serving as a trustee is a power of appointment and not a power of direction.