(1) As used in this section, “adverse party” means a person with a substantial beneficial interest in property which would be affected adversely by a powerholder‘s exercise or nonexercise of a power of appointment in favor of the powerholder, the powerholder’s estate, a creditor of the powerholder, or a creditor of the powerholder’s estate.
(2) If a powerholder may exercise a power of appointment only with the consent or joinder of an adverse party, the power is nongeneral.

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 390.090

  • Person: means an individual, estate, trust, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Kentucky Statutes 390.020
  • Power of appointment: means a power that enables a powerholder acting in a nonfiduciary capacity to designate a recipient of an ownership interest in or another power of appointment over the appointive property. See Kentucky Statutes 390.020
  • Powerholder: means a person in whom a donor creates a power of appointment. See Kentucky Statutes 390.020

(3) If the permissible appointees of a power of appointment are not defined and limited, the power is exclusionary.
Effective: July 15, 2020
History: Created 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 41, sec. 8, effective July 15, 2020.