2025 Utah Code
Title 75A - Fiduciaries
Chapter 4 - Uniform Powers of Appointment Act
Part 2 - Creation, Revocation, and Amendment of Power of Appointment
Section 201 - Creation of power of appointment.

Universal Citation:
UT Code § 75A-4-201 (2025)
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Effective 9/1/2024
75A-4-201. Creation of power of appointment.
  • (1)A power of appointment is created only if:
    • (a)the instrument creating the power is valid under applicable law; and
    • (b)the terms of the instrument creating the power manifest the donor's intent to create in a powerholder a power of appointment over the appointive property exercisable in favor of a permissible appointee.
  • (2)A power of appointment may be created by the exercise of a power of appointment.
  • (3)A power of appointment may not be created in a deceased individual.
  • (4)Subject to an applicable rule against perpetuities, a power of appointment may be created in an unborn or unascertained powerholder.


Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 364, 2024 General Session
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