Texas § PR.116.161 - PRINCIPAL RECEIPTS

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§ PR.116.161. PRINCIPAL RECEIPTS

PRINCIPAL RECEIPTS. A trustee shall allocate to principal: (1) to the extent not allocated to income under this chapter, assets received from a transferor during the transferor's lifetime, a decedent's estate, a trust with a terminating income interest, or a payer under a contract naming the trust or its trustee as beneficiary; (2) money or other property received from the sale, exchange, liquidation, or change in form of a principal asset, including realized profit, subject to this subchapter; (3) amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in Section 116.202(a)(7) or for other reasons to the extent not based on the loss of income; (4) 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 is income; (5) net income received in an accounting period during which there is no beneficiary to whom a trustee may or must distribute income; and (6) other receipts as provided in Part 3. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 659, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.

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Section PR.116.161 ("PRINCIPAL RECEIPTS") is part of the The Texas Constitution, the codified statutory law of Texas. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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