Massachusetts Statutes

§ 13 — Principal receipts

Massachusetts § 13
JurisdictionMassachusetts
Part IIREAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Title IIDESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
Ch. 203DPRINCIPAL AND INCOME

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 203D, § 13 (2026).

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Section 13. If not allocated to income, a trustee shall allocate to principal:

(1)to the extent not allocated to income under this chapter, assets received from a transferor during the transferor's lifetime, a decedent's estate, a trust with a terminating income interest or a payer under a contract naming the trust or its trustee as beneficiary;
(2)money or other property received from the sale, exchange, liquidation or change in form of a principal asset, including realized profit;
(3)amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in clause (7) of subsection (a) of section 26 or for other reasons to the extent not based on the loss of income;
(4)proceeds of property taken by eminent domain, but a separate award made for the loss of income wi

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