Need help with a review of a will?
Have it reviewed by a lawyer, get answers to your questions and move forward with confidence.
Connect with a lawyer now

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 556.114

  • Creating instrument: means a deed, will, trust agreement, or other writing or document that creates or reserves a power. See Michigan Laws 556.112
  • Donee: The recipient of a gift.
  • Donee: means a person to whom a power is granted or reserved. See Michigan Laws 556.112
  • General power: means a power, the permissible appointees of which include the donee, his or her estate, his or her creditors, or the creditors of his or her estate. See Michigan Laws 556.112
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Power: means a power of appointment over property. See Michigan Laws 556.112
  • Property: means any legal or equitable interest in real or personal property, including choses in action. See Michigan Laws 556.112
   Unless otherwise provided in the creating instrument, an instrument manifests an intent to exercise the power if the instrument purports to transfer an interest in the appointive property that the donee would have no power to transfer except by virtue of the power, even though the power is not recited or referred to in the instrument, or if the instrument either expressly or by necessary implication from its wording, interpreted in the light of the circumstances surrounding its drafting and execution, manifests an intent to exercise the power. Subject to the other provisions of this section, if there is a general power exercisable by will with no express gift in default in the creating instrument, a residuary clause or other general language in the donee‘s will purporting to dispose of all of the donee’s estate or property operates to exercise the power, but in all other cases such a clause or language does not in itself manifest an intent to exercise a power exercisable by will.