Wisconsin Statutes 702.03 – Manifestation of intent to exercise a power of appointment
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Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 702.03
- Creating instrument: means the will, trust agreement, or other document which creates or reserves the power of appointment. See Wisconsin Statutes 702.02
- Donee: means the person in whom the power of appointment is created or reserved. See Wisconsin Statutes 702.02
- Donee: The recipient of a gift.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- General power of appointment: means a power exercisable in favor of the donee, the donee's estate, the donee's creditors, or the creditors of the donee's estate, whether or not it is also exercisable in favor of others. See Wisconsin Statutes 702.02
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Person: includes all partnerships, associations and bodies politic or corporate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Power of appointment: means a power to appoint legal or equitable interests in real or personal property. See Wisconsin Statutes 702.02
- Property: includes real and personal property. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
(1) Unless the person who executed it had a contrary intention, if a creating instrument creates a power of appointment that expressly requires that the power of appointment be exercised by any type of reference to the power of appointment or its source, the donor‘s intention in requiring the reference is presumed to be to prevent an inadvertent exercise of the power of appointment. Extrinsic evidence, as defined in s. 854.01 (1), may be used to construe the intent.
(2) In the case of other powers of appointment, a creating instrument manifests an intent to exercise the power of appointment if the creating instrument purports to transfer an interest in the appointive property which the donee would have no power to transfer except by virtue of the power of appointment, even though the power of appointment is not recited or referred to in the creating instrument, or if the creating instrument either expressly or by necessary implication from its wording interpreted in light of the circumstances surrounding its drafting and execution manifests an intent to exercise the power of appointment. If there is a general power of appointment exercisable by will with no 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 of appointment in favor of the donee’s estate, but in all other cases such a clause or language does not in itself manifest an intent to exercise a power of appointment exercisable by will.