A. As used in the Oklahoma Qualified Dispositions into Trust Act:
- 1. "Claim" means a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured;
- 2. "Creditor" means, with respect to a transferor, a person who has a claim;
- 3. "Debt" means liability on a claim;
- 4. "Disposition" means a transfer, conveyance, or assignment of property, including a change in the legal ownership of property occurring upon the substitution of one trustee for another or the addition of one or more new trustees, or the exercise of a power so as to cause a transfer of property to a trustee or trustees. The term does not include the release or relinquishment of an interest in property that theretofore was the subject of a qualified disposition;
- 5. "Property" means real property, personal property, and interests in real or personal property;
- 6. "Qualified disposition" means a disposition by or from a transferor to a qualified person or qualified persons, without consideration or for less than fair market value, by means of a trust instrument;
- 7. "Spouse" and "former spouse" mean only persons to whom the transferor was married at, or before, the time the qualified disposition was made; and
- 8. "Transferor" means any person as an owner of property or as a holder of a power of appointment which authorizes the holder to appoint in favor of the holder, the holder's creditors, the holder's estate, or the creditors of the holder's estate or as a trustee, directly or indirectly, who makes a disposition or causes a disposition to be made.
- B. The terms transferor and beneficiary may be any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint stock company, business trust, trust, unincorporated organization, or two or more persons having a joint or common interest.
Laws 2024, HB 3962, c. 369, § 20, eff. November 1, 2024.