2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, And Fiduciaries
Article 2.5. Uniform Powers of Appointment Act
Section 15-2.5-305. Permissible appointment.
(1) A powerholder of a general power of appointment that permits appointment to the powerholder or the powerholder's estate may make any appointment, including an appointment in trust or creating a new power of appointment, that the powerholder could make in disposing of the powerholder's own property.
A powerholder of a general power of appointment that permits appointment only tothe creditors of the powerholder or of the powerholder's estate may appoint only to those creditors.
Unless the terms of the instrument creating a power of appointment manifest a contrary intent, the powerholder of a nongeneral power may:
Make an appointment in any form, including an appointment in trust, in favor of apermissible appointee;
Create a general or nongeneral power in a permissible appointee; or
Create a nongeneral power in an impermissible appointee to appoint to one or moreof the permissible appointees of the original nongeneral power.
Source: L. 2014: Entire article added, (HB 14-1353), ch. 209, p. 777, § 1, effective July 1, 2015.
