§ 15-11-511 — Testamentary additions to trusts

Colorado § 15-11-511

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 15: Probate,
• Art.: Intestate Succession and Wills

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(1) A will may validly devise
property to the trustee of a trust established or to be established (i) during the
testator's lifetime by the testator, by the testator and some other person, or by
some other person, including a funded or unfunded life insurance trust, although
the settlor has reserved any or all rights of ownership of the insurance contracts, or
(ii) at the testator's death by the testator's devise to the trustee, if the trust is
identified in the testator's will and its terms are set forth in a written instrument,
other than a will, executed before, concurrently with, or after the execution of the
testator's will or in another individual's will if that other individual has predeceased
the testator, regardless of the existence, size, or character of the corpus of the
trust. The devise is not invalid because the trust is amendable or revocable, or
because the trust was amended after the execution of the will or the testator's
death.

(2) Unless the testator's will provides otherwise, property devised to a trust
described in subsection (1) of this section is not held under a testamentary trust of
the testator, but it becomes a part of the trust to which it is devised, and is
administered and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the governing
instrument setting forth the terms of the trust, including any amendments thereto
made before or after the testator's death.

(3) A revocation or termination of the trust before the death of the testator
causes the devise to lapse, but exhaustion of trust corpus between the time of
execution of the testator's will and the testator's death shall not constitute a lapse;
a revocation or termination of the trust before the death of the testator shall not
cause the devise to lapse, if the testator provides that, in such event, the devise
shall constitute a devise to the trustee of the trust identified in the testator's will,
and on the terms thereof, as they existed at the time of the execution of testator's
will, or as they existed at the time of the revocation or termination of the trust, as
the testator's will provides.

Legislative History

Source: L. 94: Entire part R&RE, p. 1001, � 3, effective July 1, 1995.