72-34-436. Amounts allocated to principal. 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) subject to any contrary rules in 72-34-433 through 72-34-447, 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 72-34-449(1)(g) 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 is required to distribute income; and (6) other receipts allocated to principal as provided in 72-34-440 through 72-34-447. unting period during which there is no beneficiary to whom a trustee may or is required to distribute income; and (6) other receipts allocated to principal as provided in 72-34-440 through 72-34-447. History: En. Sec. 16, Ch. 506, L. 2003.
Montana Legal Code
§ 72-34-436
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