Section 469.433

Title XXXI TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY

Chapter 469

Effective - 28 Aug 2001   

  469.433.  Life insurance proceeds allocated to principal — dividends allocated to income. — 1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 of this section, a trustee shall allocate to principal the proceeds of a life insurance policy or other contract in which the trust or its trustee is named as beneficiary, including a contract that insures the trust or its trustee against loss for damage to, destruction of, or loss of title to a trust asset.  The trustee shall allocate dividends on an insurance policy to income if the premiums on the policy are paid from income, and to principal if the premiums are paid from principal.

  2.  A trustee shall allocate to income proceeds of a contract that insures the trustee against loss of occupancy or other use by an income beneficiary, loss of income, or, subject to section 469.427, loss of profits from a business.

  3.  This section does not apply to a contract to which section 469.437 applies.

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(L. 2001 H.B. 241)