(1) An amount received as interest, whether determined at a fixed, variable, or floating rate, on an obligation to pay money to the trustee, including an amount received as consideration for prepaying principal, shall be allocated to income without any provision for amortization of premium.
    (2) A trustee shall allocate to principal an amount received from the sale, redemption, or other disposition of an obligation to pay money to the trustee more than 1 year after it is purchased or acquired by the trustee, including an obligation whose purchase price or value when it is acquired is less than its value at maturity. If the obligation matures within 1 year after it is purchased or acquired by the trustee, an amount received in excess of its purchase price or its value when acquired by the trust must be allocated to income.

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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 555.806

  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Income: means money or property that a fiduciary receives as current return from a principal asset. See Michigan Laws 555.502
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Principal: means property held in trust for distribution to a remainder beneficiary when the trust terminates. See Michigan Laws 555.502
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustee: includes an original, additional, or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court. See Michigan Laws 555.502
    (3) This section does not apply to an obligation to which section 409, 410, 411, 412, 414, or 415 applies.