Massachusetts General Laws ch. 203D sec. 13 – Principal receipts
Section 13. If not allocated to income, a trustee shall allocate to principal:
Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws ch. 203D sec. 13
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- 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
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(1) to the extent not allocated to income under this chapter, assets received from a transferor during the transferor’s lifetime, a decedent‘s estate, a trust with a terminating income interest or a payer under a contract naming the trust or its trustee as beneficiary;
(2) money or other property received from the sale, exchange, liquidation or change in form of a principal asset, including realized profit;
(3) amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in clause (7) of subsection (a) of section 26 or for other reasons to the extent not based on the loss of income;
(4) proceeds of property taken by eminent domain, but a separate award made for the loss of income with respect to an accounting period during which a current income beneficiary had a mandatory income interest is income;
(5) net income received in an accounting period during which there is no beneficiary to whom a trustee may or must distribute income; and
(6) other receipts.