Appointment to deceased appointee or permissible appointee's descendant.

1. Law
2. Revised Code of Washington
3. Probate and Trust Law
4. Uniform Powers of Appointment Act.
5. Appointment to deceased appointee or permissible appointee's descendant.

(1) Subject to RCW 11.12.110 and 11.12.120, an appointment to a deceased appointee is ineffective.

(2) Unless the terms of the instrument creating a power of appointment manifest a contrary intent, a powerholder of a nongeneral power may exercise the power in favor of, or create a new power of appointment in, a descendant of a deceased permissible appointee whether or not the descendant is described by the donor as a permissible appointee.

[ 2021 c 140 § 3306.]

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