New Jersey Statutes 3B:19B-17. Deferred compensation, retirement benefits, annuities, and similar payments
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:19B-17
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Estate: means all of the property of a decedent, minor or incapacitated individual, trust or other person whose affairs are subject to this title as the property is originally constituted and as it exists from time to time during administration. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
b. To the extent that a trustee can readily ascertain the part of a payment from a separate fund held for the benefit of the trust that represents the then undistributed net income of the fund realized since the trust acquired its interest in the fund, a trustee shall allocate that part to income. The trustee shall allocate to principal the balance of the payment.
c. If no part of a payment is allocated to income under subsection b. of this section, and all or part of the payment is required to be made, a trustee shall allocate to income 10 percent of the part that is required to be made during the accounting period and the balance to principal. If no part of a payment is required to be made or the payment received is the entire amount to which the trustee is entitled, the trustee shall allocate the entire payment to principal. For purposes of this subsection, a payment is not “required to be made” to the extent that it is made because the trustee exercises a right of withdrawal.
d. If, to obtain an estate tax or gift tax marital deduction for a trust, the trustee must allocate more of a payment to income than provided for by this section, the trustee shall allocate to income the additional amount necessary to obtain the marital deduction.
e. This section does not apply to payments to which section 18 of this act applies.
L.2001,c.212,s.17.