Connecticut General Statutes 45a-542l – Principal receipts
A trustee shall allocate to principal:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 45a-542l
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Beneficiary: means a person that (A) has a present or future beneficial interest in a trust, vested or contingent. See Connecticut General Statutes 45a-499c
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership, whether real or personal and whether legal or equitable, or any interest therein. See Connecticut General Statutes 45a-499c
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- Trustee: includes an original, additional and successor trustee and a cotrustee. See Connecticut General Statutes 45a-499c
(1) To the extent not allocated to income under sections 45a-542 to 45a-542ff, inclusive, 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 sections 45a-542i to 45a-542w, inclusive;
(3) Amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of § 45a-542y 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 45a-542p to 45a-542w, inclusive.