Nevada Code § 165.020

Definitions; applicability of chapter
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1. As used in this chapter:
(a) Account means a report of the financial
condition of the trust estate prepared by a trustee which:
(1) Must include the information set forth
in NRS 165.135 ; and
(2) May include information required by
court order, the terms of the trust instrument or NRS 165.1201 to 165.148 , inclusive.
(b) Accounting period means the period for
which the trustee is accounting and, except as otherwise provided in this
chapter, commencing with the first day following the previous accounting period
and ending on the date specified by the trustee or on the date specified by the
court if the account is ordered by the court. If the account is an initial
account, the initial account commences on the day the trustee became the
trustee.
(c) Broad power of appointment means a power of
appointment held by a person, commonly referred to as a power holder, that can
be exercised in favor of:
(1) The power holder, without any
restriction or limitation; or
(2) Any person other than one or more of
the following:
(I) The power holder;
(II) The power holders estate;
(III) The power holders creditors;
or
(IV) The creditors of the power
holders estate.
(d) Current beneficiary means a distribution
beneficiary to whom or for whose benefit the trustee is authorized or required
to make distributions of income or principal at any time during the accounting
period.
(e) Distribution beneficiary has the meaning
ascribed to it in NRS 163.415 .
(f) Remainder beneficiary means a beneficiary
who will become a current beneficiary upon the death of an existing current
beneficiary or upon the occurrence of some other event that may occur during
the beneficiarys lifetime, regardless of whether the beneficiarys share is
subject to elimination, but has not been eliminated, under a power of
appointment other than a broad power of appointment.
(g) Remote beneficiary means a natural person
or an entity whose interest in the trust estate is preceded by the priority
interest of one or more current beneficiaries and one or more remainder
beneficiaries, all of whose interests must be extinguished by death or pursuant
to the terms of the trust instrument before the remote beneficiary may become a
current beneficiary.
(h) Settlor means the creator of a testamentary
as well as a nontestamentary trust. The term includes a trustor and a grantor.
(i) Successor trustee means a successor to the
acting trustee or substitute trustee named or appointed to succeed a
predecessor trustee who has not yet assumed the role of trustee. Upon assuming
the role, the successor trustee must thereafter be referred to as the trustee.
(j) Testamentary trustee means a trustee
serving under a trust created by a will of a testator domiciled in this state
at the time of the testators death, whose will has been admitted to probate in
this state, whether the trustee was appointed by the testator or by a court or
other authority.
(k) Trust means:
(1) A trust as defined in NRS 163.020 ;
(2) A testamentary trust as defined in NRS 163.0018 ; and
(3) A nontestamentary trust as defined in NRS 163.0016 .
(l) Trustee includes a nontestamentary trustee,
a testamentary trustee and a corporate trustee, as well as a natural person.
The term does not include a successor or substitute trustee, until the successor
trustee or substitute trustee assumes the role of acting trustee.
2. This chapter does not apply to
resulting trusts, constructive trusts, business trusts where certificates of
beneficial interest are issued to the beneficiaries, investment trusts, voting
trusts, insurance trusts prior to the death of the insured, trusts in the
nature of mortgages or pledges, trusts created by judgment or decree of a
federal court or a state court other than the district court acting in probate
matters, liquidation trusts, or trust for the sole purpose of paying dividends,
interest or interest coupons, salaries, wages or pensions.

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