Terms Used In Michigan Laws 554.94

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  (1) This act applies only to a nonvested interest in, or power of appointment over, personal property held in a trust that is either revocable on, or created after, May 28, 2008, and only to the extent that the trust is not a special appointee trust.
  (2) For purposes of this section, both of the following apply:
  (a) A trust that is created by the exercise of a power of appointment is created when the power has been irrevocably exercised or when a revocable exercise becomes irrevocable.
  (b) A trust is a “special appointee trust” to the extent it includes assets that were held in a trust that was irrevocable on September 25, 1985, and both of the following apply to the assets:
  (i) The assets have continuously been held in trust since September 25, 1985.
  (ii) The assets have not become subject to a general power of appointment since September 25, 1985.