2019 Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 35. Trusts
Subchapter VI Qualified Dispositions in Trust
§ 3573 Limitations on qualified dispositions [For application of this section, see 79 Del. Laws, c. 198, § 2].

Universal Citation: 12 DE Code § 3573 (2019)

With respect to the limitations imposed by § 3572 of this title, those limitations on actions by creditors to avoid a qualified disposition shall not apply:

(1) To any person to whom the transferor is indebted on account of an agreement or order of court for the payment of support or alimony in favor of such transferor’s spouse, former spouse or children, or for a division or distribution of property incident to a judicial proceeding with respect to a separation or divorce in favor of such transferor’s spouse or former spouse, but only to the extent of such debt; or

(2) To any person who suffers death, personal injury or property damage on or before the date of a qualified disposition by a transferor, which death, personal injury or property damage is at any time determined to have been caused in whole or in part by the tortious act or omission of either such transferor or by another person for whom such transferor is or was vicariously liable but only to the extent of such claim against such transferor or other person for whom such transferor is or was vicariously liable.

Paragraph (1) of this section shall not apply to any claim for forced heirship, legitime or elective share.

71 Del. Laws, c. 159, § 1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 254, § 36; 71 Del. Laws, c. 343, § 8; 72 Del. Laws, c. 341, § 9; 74 Del. Laws, c. 100, § 1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 97, § 15; 78 Del. Laws, c. 117, § 12; 79 Del. Laws, c. 198, § 1.

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