2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, And Fiduciaries
Article 1. Fiduciary
Section 15-1-419. Deferred compensation, annuities, and similar payments.

Universal Citation: CO Rev Stat § 15-1-419 (2020)

(1) For purposes of this section:

  1. "Payment" means a payment that a trustee may receive over a fixed number of yearsor during the life of one or more individuals because of services rendered or property transferred to the payer in exchange for future payments. The term includes a payment made in money or property from the payer's general assets or from a separate fund created by the payer. For purposes of subsections (4) to (7) of this section, "payment" also includes any payment from any separate fund, regardless of the reason for the payment.

  2. "Separate fund" includes a private or commercial annuity, an individual retirementaccount, and a pension, profit-sharing, stock-bonus, or stock-ownership plan.

  1. To the extent that a payment is characterized as interest, a dividend, or a paymentmade in lieu of interest or a dividend, a trustee shall allocate the payment to income. The trustee shall allocate to principal the balance of the payment and any other payment received in the same accounting period that is not characterized as interest, a dividend, or an equivalent payment.

  2. If no part of a payment is characterized as interest, a dividend, or an equivalentpayment, and all or part of the payment is required to be made, a trustee shall allocate to income ten 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 (3), a payment is not required to be made to the extent that it is made because the trustee exercises a right of withdrawal.

  3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (5) of this section, subsections (6) and (7) of this section apply, and subsections (2) and (3) do not apply, in determining the allocation of a payment made from a separate fund to:

  1. A trust to which an election to qualify for a marital deduction under 26 U.S.C. sec.2056 (b)(7), as amended, has been made; or

  2. A trust that qualifies for the marital deduction under 26 U.S.C. sec. 2056 (b)(5), asamended.

  1. Subsections (4), (6), and (7) of this section do not apply if and to the extent that theseries of payments would, without application of said subsection (4), qualify for the marital deduction under 26 U.S.C. sec. 2056 (b)(7)(C), as amended.

  2. A trustee shall determine the internal income of each separate fund for the accounting period as if the separate fund were a trust subject to this part 4. Upon request of the surviving spouse, the trustee shall demand that the person administering the separate fund distribute the internal income to the trust. The trustee shall allocate a payment from the separate fund to income to the extent of the internal income of the separate fund and distribute that amount to the surviving spouse. The trustee shall allocate the balance of the payment to principal. Upon request of the surviving spouse, the trustee shall allocate principal to income to the extent the internal income of the separate fund exceeds payments made from the separate fund to the trust during the accounting period.

  3. If a trustee cannot determine the internal income of a separate fund but can determinethe value of the separate fund, the internal income of the separate fund is deemed to equal four percent of the fund's value, according to the most recent statement of value preceding the beginning of the accounting period. If the trustee can determine neither the internal income of the separate fund nor the fund's value, the internal income of the fund is deemed to equal the product of the interest rate and the present value of the expected future payments, as determined under 26 U.S.C. sec. 7520, as amended, for the month preceding the accounting period for which the computation is made.

  4. This section does not apply to a payment governed by the provisions of section 15-1420.

Source: L. 2000: Entire part R&RE, p. 1141, § 1, effective July 1, 2001. L. 2009: Entire section amended, (SB 09-139), ch. 131, p. 565, § 1, effective April 16.

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