(1) As used in this section, “adverse party” means a person with a substantial beneficial interest in property that 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.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 75A-4-205

  • Estate: means the same as that term is defined in Section 75-1-201. See Utah Code 75A-4-102
  • Person: means an individual, estate, trust, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Utah Code 75A-4-102
  • Power of appointment: means a power that enables a powerholder acting in a nonfiduciary capacity to designate a recipient of an interest in, or another power of appointment over, the appointive property. See Utah Code 75A-4-102
  • Powerholder: means a person in whom a donor creates a power of appointment. See Utah Code 75A-4-102
  • Property: means the same as that term is defined in Section 75-1-201. See Utah Code 75A-4-102
(2) If a powerholder may exercise a power of appointment only with the consent or joinder of an adverse party, the power is nongeneral.
(3) If the permissible appointees of a power of appointment are not defined and limited, the power is exclusionary.