If a powerholder exercises a power of appointment in a disposition that also disposes of property the powerholder owns, the owned property and the appointive property shall be allocated in the permissible manner that best carries out the powerholder’s intent.

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Terms Used In Virginia Code 64.2-2720

  • Appointive property: means the property or property interest subject to a power of appointment. See Virginia Code 64.2-2700
  • 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 Virginia Code 64.2-2700
  • Powerholder: means a person in which a donor creates a power of appointment. See Virginia Code 64.2-2700

2016, c. 266.