2018 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 701. Trusts.
701.1102 Definitions.
701.1102 Definitions. In this subchapter:
(1) “Accounting period" means a calendar year, unless a fiduciary selects another 12-month period, and includes a portion of a calendar year or other 12-month period that begins when an income interest begins or that ends when an income interest ends.
(1g) “Asset" has the meaning given for property under s. 701.0103 (20).
(1m) Notwithstanding s. 701.0103 (3), “beneficiary" means a person who has a beneficial interest in a trust or an estate and includes, in the case of a decedent's estate, an heir, a legatee, and a devisee and, in the case of a trust, an income beneficiary and a remainder beneficiary.
(2) “Fiduciary" means a personal representative or a trustee and includes an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, and a person performing substantially the same function as any of those.
(3) “Income" means money or property that a fiduciary receives as current return from a principal asset. “Income" includes a portion of receipts from a sale, exchange, or liquidation of a principal asset, to the extent provided in ss. 701.1115 to 701.1129.
(4) “Income beneficiary" means a person to whom net income of a trust is or may be payable.
(5) “Income interest" means the right of an income beneficiary to receive all or part of net income, whether the terms of the trust require it to be distributed or authorize it to be distributed in the trustee's discretion.
(6) “Mandatory income interest" means the right of an income beneficiary to receive net income that the terms of the trust require the fiduciary to distribute.
(7) “Net income" means the total receipts allocated to income during an accounting period, minus the disbursements made from income during the period, plus or minus transfers under this subchapter to or from income during the period.
(8) “Principal" means property held in trust for distribution to a remainder beneficiary when the trust terminates or property held in trust in perpetuity.
(9) “Remainder beneficiary" means a person who is a beneficiary under s. 701.0103 (21) (b).
History: 2013 a. 92 ss. 179, 180, 205 to 212, 214, 215.
