2016 Florida Statutes
TITLE XLII - ESTATES AND TRUSTS
Chapter 738 - PRINCIPAL AND INCOME
738.608 - Asset-backed securities.

738.608 Asset-backed securities.—

(1) For purposes of this section, “asset-backed security” means an asset the value of which is based upon the right given the owner to receive distributions from the proceeds of financial assets that provide collateral for the security. The term includes an asset that gives the owner the right to receive from the collateral financial assets only the interest or other current return or only the proceeds other than interest or current return. The term does not include an asset to which s. 738.401 or s. 738.602 applies.

(2) If a trust or estate receives a payment from interest or other current return and from other proceeds of the collateral financial assets, the fiduciary shall allocate to income the portion of the payment which the payor identifies as being from interest or other current return and allocate the balance of the payment to principal.

(3) If a trust or estate receives one or more payments in exchange for the trust’s or estate’s entire interest in an asset-backed security during a single accounting period, the fiduciary shall allocate the payments to principal. If a payment is one of a series of payments that will result in the liquidation of the trust’s or estate’s interest in the security over more than a single accounting period, the fiduciary shall allocate 10 percent of the payment to income and the balance to principal.

History.—s. 1, ch. 2002-42; s. 26, ch. 2012-49.