Wisconsin Statutes 701.1315 – Trust limitation on decanting
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Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 701.1315
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- 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
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Following: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next following that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Person: includes all partnerships, associations and bodies politic or corporate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
(1) An authorized fiduciary may not exercise the decanting power to the extent the first-trust instrument expressly prohibits exercise of any of the following:
(a) The decanting power.
(b) A power granted by state law to the fiduciary to distribute part or all of the principal of the trust to another trust or to modify the trust.
(2) Exercise of the decanting power is subject to any restriction in the first-trust instrument that expressly applies to exercise of any of the following:
(a) The decanting power.
(b) A power granted by state law to a fiduciary to distribute part or all of the principal of the trust to another trust or to modify the trust.
(3) A general prohibition of the amendment or revocation of a first trust, a spendthrift clause, or a clause restraining the voluntary or involuntary transfer of a beneficiary‘s interest does not preclude exercise of the decanting power.
(4) Subject to subs. (1) and (2), an authorized fiduciary may exercise the decanting power under this subchapter even if the first-trust instrument permits the authorized fiduciary or another person to modify the first-trust instrument or to distribute part or all of the principal of the first trust to another trust.
(5) If a first-trust instrument contains an express restriction described in sub. (2), the provision must be included in the 2nd-trust instrument.