16338
Effective Jan 1, 2024Repealed and added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 28, Sec. 2. (SB 522) Effective January 1, 2024.
(a) A unitrust plan may include any of the following:
(1) Provide methods and standards for all of the following:
- (A) Determining the timing of distributions.
- (B) Making distributions in money or in kind or partly in money and partly in kind.
- (C) Correcting an underpayment or overpayment to a beneficiary based on the unitrust amount if there is an error in calculating the unitrust amount.
- (2) Specify sources and the order of sources, including categories of income for federal income tax purposes, from which distributions of a unitrust amount are paid.
- (3) Provide other standards and rules the fiduciary determines serve the interests of the beneficiaries.
(b) If a trust qualifies for a special tax benefit or a fiduciary is not an independent person:
- (1) The unitrust rate established under Section 16335 may not be less than 3 percent or more than 5 percent.
- (2) The only provisions of Section 16336 that apply are subdivision (a) and paragraphs (1), (4), and (9) of, and subparagraph (A) of paragraph (5) of, subdivision (b) of that section.
- (3) The only period that may be used under Section 16337 is a calendar year under paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 16337.
- (4) The only other provisions of Section 16337 that apply are subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of, and paragraph (3) of, subdivision (b) of that section.