§ 55-13A-404 — Principal receipts.

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, subject to this article; (3) Amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in § 55-13A-502(a)(7) 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 with respect to an accounting period during which a current income beneficiary had a mandatory income interest is income; (5) Net income received in an accounting period during which there is no beneficiary to whom a trustee may or must distribute income; and (6) Other receipts as provided in §§ 55-13A-408 to 55-13A-415 , inclusive.

Legislative History

SL 2007, ch 282, § 14.