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Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 18-C, § 7-444

Principal receipts

Known as the Uniform Principal and Income Act

The act spans §§ 7–7 (43 sections).

PL 2017, c. 402, Pt

A trustee shall allocate to principal:

1. Assets received. To the extent not allocated to income under this Part, 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;

2. Received from sale, exchange, liquidation or change in form of asset. Money or other property received from the sale, exchange, liquidation or change in form of a principal asset, including realized profit, subject to this subpart;

3. Reimbursements because of disbursements. Amounts recovered from 3rd parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in section 7‑462, subsection 1, paragraph G or for other reasons to the extent not based on the loss of income;

4. Proceeds of property taken by eminent domain. 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 without beneficiary. 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. Other receipts as provided in sections 7‑448 to 7‑455.

Official source: Maine Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Maine statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.