Utah Code § 75A-4-201

Creation of power of appointment
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(1) A power of appointment is created only if:
(a) the instrument creating the power is valid under applicable law; and
(b) the terms of the instrument creating the power manifest the donor's intent to create in a
powerholder a power of appointment over the appointive property exercisable in favor of a
permissible appointee.
(2) A power of appointment may be created by the exercise of a power of appointment.
(3) A power of appointment may not be created in a deceased individual.
(4) Subject to an applicable rule against perpetuities, a power of appointment may be created in an
unborn or unascertained powerholder.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 364, 2024 General Session

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