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Probate & Trust Law Section Conference Manual ... - Minnesota CLE

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LIMITATIONS ON EXERCISING POWER IN FAVOR OF SPOUSE<br />

Any exercise of a power of appointment granted to a person under this Agreement in<br />

favor of said person’s spouse shall be exercised only by appointing assets subject to such power to a<br />

trustee to be held in trust for the benefit of said person’s spouse, and the terms of such trust shall<br />

provide that, during the lifetime of said person’s spouse:<br />

Comments<br />

(1) The trustee of said trust shall not be required by the terms of such trust to<br />

make distributions to said person’s spouse in any calendar year that exceed<br />

the entire net income from said trust.<br />

(2) The trustee may be authorized, but shall not be required, to make<br />

discretionary distributions of the principal of said trust to said person’s spouse<br />

only if such discretionary distributions to said person’s spouse are limited to<br />

amounts necessary to provide for the proper support, maintenance and health<br />

of said person’s spouse, taking into consideration other sources of financial<br />

assistance which may be or become available to said person’s spouse.<br />

(3) The trustee may be authorized to make discretionary distributions of the net<br />

income from or the principal of said trust to any one or more members of the<br />

group consisting of the Settlor’s issue on such terms as said person may<br />

provide.<br />

(4) The <strong>Trust</strong> shall require that at all times at least one Family <strong>Trust</strong>ee and/or a<br />

Corporate <strong>Trust</strong>ee be acting as a trustee of said trust and distributions shall be<br />

made only as determined by such Family <strong>Trust</strong>ee and/or such Corporate<br />

<strong>Trust</strong>ee as are then acting. The term “Family <strong>Trust</strong>ee” shall mean any adult<br />

issue of the Settlor.<br />

(5) Upon the death of said person’s spouse, all assets remaining in said trust shall<br />

continue to be administered for the benefit of, or distributed outright to, any<br />

one or more members of the group consisting of the persons in whose favor<br />

such power could have been exercised, as directed by said person in<br />

accordance with the exercise of the power of appointment herein granted.<br />

(6) For purposes of this paragraph, “said person’s spouse” shall mean the person<br />

legally married to said person at the death of said person.<br />

This provision may be particularly important where the trust includes family business interests or<br />

other family property. The provision allows the surviving spouse to benefit from the property but<br />

restricts the spouse from obtaining ownership of the principal asset itself unless the family or<br />

corporate trustee consents. In the case of a family business interest, the restriction may go further<br />

and specifically prohibit distributions of the family business interest to the spouse.<br />

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