2017 Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
CHAPTER 6. DISCLAIMER
§ 602. Definitions.

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Beneficiary designation'' means a testamentary or nontestamentary instrument or contract, other than an instrument creating a trust, naming the beneficiary of:

a. An annuity or insurance policy;

b. An account with a designation for payment on death;

c. A security registered in beneficiary form;

d. A pension, profit-sharing, retirement, or other employment-related benefit plan; or

e. Any other non-probate interest in property with a designation for transfer on death.

(2) "Code'' means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (26 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), or the comparable provisions of any later law.

(3) "Disclaimant'' means the person to whom a disclaimed interest in property would have passed had the disclaimer not been made, or the person who would have had a power over property or with respect to property, including a power of appointment, had the disclaimer not been made.

(4) "Disclaimed interest'' means the interest that would have passed to the disclaimant had the disclaimer not been made.

(5) "Disclaimed power'' means the power that the disclaimant would have had over property in the nature of a power of appointment with respect to an interest in property or any other power that a disclaimant could have exercised with respect to property had the disclaimer not been made.

(6) "Disclaimer'' means the refusal to accept an interest in or power over property.

(7) "Fiduciary'' means a personal representative, trustee of a trust, agent acting under a power of attorney, conservator, custodian under a Uniform Transfers to Minors Act [Chapter 45 of this title] or similar statute of any jurisdiction, guardian, or other person authorized to act as a fiduciary with respect to the property or power of another person.

(8) "Holder'' means the person holding a power of appointment over an interest in property held in a trust, or holding a power over a trust, who is granted the right or authority to exercise the power of appointment over an interest in property held in a trust or of a power over a trust under the terms of the instrument governing the trust.

(9) "Jointly held property'' means property held in the name of 2 or more persons under an arrangement in which all owners have concurrent interests and under which the last surviving owner is entitled to the whole of the property. The term "jointly held property'' specifically includes a tenancy by the entirety, and an "owner'' shall include a tenant by the entirety.

(10) "Person'' means an individual, living, deceased or unborn, ascertained or unascertained, corporation, business trust, statutory trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or any governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.

(11) "This State'' means the State of Delaware, and "State'' means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The term includes an Indian tribe or band, or Alaskan native village, recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a State.

(12) "Trust'' means:

a. An express trust, charitable or noncharitable, with additions thereto, whenever and however created; and

b. A trust created pursuant to a statute, judgment, or decree which requires the trust to be administered in the manner of an express trust.

75 Del. Laws, c. 302, § 1.;