Georgia § 53-12-420 - Principal receipts.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 53-12-420 — Principal receipts., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 53-12-420. Principal receipts.
A trustee shall allocate to principal: To the extent not allocated to income under this article, assets received from a transferor during the transferor's lifetime, a decedent's estate, a trust with a terminating income interest, or a payor under a contract naming the trust or its trustee as beneficiary; Money or other property received from the sale, exchange, liquidation, or change in form of a principal asset, including realized profit, subject to the provisions of this article; Amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in paragraph (7) of subsection (a) of Code Section 53-12-451 or for other reasons to the extent not based on the loss of income; Proceeds of property taken by eminent domain, but a separate award made for the loss of income with respect to an accounting period during which a current income beneficiary had a mandatory income interest shall be income; Net income received in an accounting period during which there is no beneficiary to whom a trustee may or must distribute income; and Other receipts as provided in this article. (Code 1981, § 53-12-420 , enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 579, § 1/SB 131; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 53/HB 142.)
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