Section 21524 Of Chapter 2. Marital Deduction Gifts From California Probate Code >> Division 11. >> Part 5. >> Chapter 2.
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. If a marital deduction gift is made in trust, in addition to
the other provisions of this chapter, each of the following
provisions also applies to the marital deduction trust:
(a) The transferor's spouse is the only beneficiary of income or
principal of the marital deduction property as long as the spouse is
alive. Nothing in this subdivision precludes exercise by the
transferor's spouse of a power of appointment included in a trust
that qualifies as a general power of appointment marital deduction
trust.
(b) Subject to subdivision (d), the transferor's spouse is
entitled to all of the income of the marital deduction property not
less frequently than annually, as long as the spouse is alive.
(c) The transferor's spouse has the right to require that the
trustee of the trust make unproductive marital deduction property
productive or to convert it into productive property within a
reasonable time.
(d) Notwithstanding Section 16347, in the case of qualified
terminable interest property under Section 2056(b)(7) or Section 2523
(f) of the Internal Revenue Code, on termination of the interest of
the transferor's spouse in the trust all of the remaining accrued or
undistributed income shall pass to the estate of the transferor's
spouse, unless the instrument provides a different disposition that
qualifies for the marital deduction.