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Effective Jan 1, 2017Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 81, Sec. 1. (AB 2846) Effective January 1, 2017.
As used in this part:
- (a) “Appointee” means the person in whose favor a power of appointment is exercised.
- (b) “Appointive property” means the property or interest in property that is the subject of the power of appointment.
- (c) “Creating instrument” means the deed, will, trust, or other writing or document that creates or reserves the power of appointment.
- (d) “Donor” means the person who creates or reserves a power of appointment.
- (e) “Permissible appointee” means a person in whose favor a power of appointment can be exercised.
- (f) “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. The term does not include a power of attorney.
- (g) “Powerholder” means the person to whom a power of appointment is given or in whose favor a power of appointment is reserved.