§ 35-6-404 — 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 chapter; (3) Amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in § 35-6-502(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 Part 4C, §§ 35-6-408 - 35-6-415.

Legislative History

Acts 2000, ch. 829, § 1.