The Vermont Statutes Online

Title 14 : Decedents Estates and Fiduciary Relations

Chapter 118 : Uniform Principal and Income Act

Subchapter 004 : Allocation of Receipts During Administration of Trust

• § 3354. 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 subdivision 3372(a)(7) of this title 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 sections 3358-3365 of this title. (Added 2011, No. 114 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)