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NE Code § 30-3133 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3133 - Insurance policies and similar contracts.

30-3133.  Insurance policies and similar contracts.(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, a trustee shall allocate to principal the proceeds of a life insurance policy or other contract in which the trust or its trustee is named as beneficiary, including a contract that insures the trust or its trustee against loss for damage to, destruction of, or loss of title to a trust asset. The trustee shall allocate dividends on an insurance policy to income if the premiums on the policy are paid from income, and to principal if the premiums are paid from principal.(b) A trustee shall allocate to income proceeds of a contract that insures the trustee against loss of occupancy or other use by an income beneficiary, loss of income, or, subject to section 30-3129, loss of profits from a business.(c) This section does not apply to a contract to which section 30-3135 applies.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 18.
NE Code § 30-3134 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3134 - Insubstantial allocations not required.

30-3134.  Insubstantial allocations not required.If a trustee determines that an allocation between principal and income required by section 30-3135, 30-3136, 30-3137, 30-3138, or 30-3141 is insubstantial, the trustee may allocate the entire amount to principal unless one of the circumstances described in subsection (c) of section 30-3119 applies to the allocation. This power may be exercised by a cotrustee in the circumstances described in subsection (d) of section 30-3119 and may be released for the reasons and in the manner described in subsection (e) of section 30-3119. An allocation is presumed to be insubstantial if:(1) the amount of the allocation would increase or decrease net income in an accounting period, as determined before the allocation, by less than ten percent; or(2) the value of the asset producing the receipt for which the allocation would be made is less than ten percent of the total value of the trust's assets at the beginning of the accounting period.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 19.
NE Code § 30-3135.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3135.01 - Trust; marital deduction; when provisions applicable.

30-3135.01.  Trust; marital deduction; when provisions applicable.Section 30-3135, as amended by Laws 2009, LB 80, applies to a trust described in subsection (d) of section 30-3135 on and after the following dates:(1) If the trust is not funded as of February 27, 2009, the date of the decedent's death;(2) If the trust is initially funded in the calendar year beginning January 1, 2009, the date of the decedent's death; or(3) If the trust is not described in subdivision (1) or (2) of this section, January 1, 2009.Source Laws 2009, LB80, § 4.
NE Code § 30-3136 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3136 - Liquidating asset.

30-3136.  Liquidating asset.(a) In this section, liquidating asset means an asset whose value will diminish or terminate because the asset is expected to produce receipts for a period of limited duration. The term includes a leasehold, patent, copyright, royalty right, and right to receive payments during a period of more than one year under an arrangement that does not provide for the payment of interest on the unpaid balance. The term does not include a payment subject to section 30-3135, resources subject to section 30-3137, timber subject to section 30-3138, an activity subject to section 30-3140, an asset subject to section 30-3141, or any asset for which the trustee establishes a reserve for depreciation under section 30-3144.(b) A trustee shall allocate to income ten percent of the receipts from a liquidating asset and the balance to principal.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 21.
NE Code § 30-3137 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3137 - Minerals, water, and other natural resources.

30-3137.  Minerals, water, and other natural resources.(a) To the extent that a trustee accounts for receipts from an interest in minerals or other natural resources pursuant to this section, the trustee shall allocate them as follows:(1) If received as nominal delay rental or nominal annual rent on a lease, a receipt must be allocated to income.(2) If received from a production payment, a receipt must be allocated to income if and to the extent that the agreement creating the production payment provides a factor for interest or its equivalent. The balance must be allocated to principal.(3) If an amount received as a royalty, shut-in-well payment, take-or-pay payment, bonus, or delay rental is more than nominal, ninety percent must be allocated to principal and the balance to income.(4) If an amount is received from a working interest or any other interest not provided for in subdivision (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection, ninety percent of the net amount received must be allocated to principal and the balance to income.(b) An amount received on account of an interest in water that is renewable must be allocated to income. If the water is not renewable, ninety percent of the amount must be allocated to principal and the balance to income.(c) The Uniform Principal and Income Act applies whether or not a decedent or donor was extracting minerals, water, or other natural resources before the interest became subject to the trust.(d) If a trust owns an interest in minerals, water, or other natural resources on September 1, 2001, the trustee may allocate receipts from the interest as provided in the act or in the manner used by the trustee before September 1, 2001. If the trust acquires an interest in minerals, water, or other natural resources after September 1, 2001, the trustee shall allocate receipts from the interest as provided in the act.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 22.
NE Code § 30-3138 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3138 - Timber.

30-3138.  Timber.(a) To the extent that a trustee accounts for receipts from the sale of timber and related products pursuant to this section, the trustee shall allocate the net receipts:(1) to income to the extent that the amount of timber removed from the land does not exceed the rate of growth of the timber during the accounting periods in which a beneficiary has a mandatory income interest;(2) to principal to the extent that the amount of timber removed from the land exceeds the rate of growth of the timber or the net receipts are from the sale of standing timber;(3) to or between income and principal if the net receipts are from the lease of timberland or from a contract to cut timber from land owned by a trust, by determining the amount of timber removed from the land under the lease or contract and applying the rules in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection; or(4) to principal to the extent that advance payments, bonuses, and other payments are not allocated pursuant to subdivision (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection.(b) In determining net receipts to be allocated pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, a trustee shall deduct and transfer to principal a reasonable amount for depletion.(c) The Uniform Principal and Income Act applies whether or not a decedent or transferor was harvesting timber from the property before it became subject to the trust.(d) If a trust owns an interest in timberland on September 1, 2001, the trustee may allocate net receipts from the sale of timber and related products as provided in the act or in the manner used by the trustee before September 1, 2001. If the trust acquires an interest in timberland after September 1, 2001, the trustee shall allocate net receipts from the sale of timber and related products as provided in the act.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 23.
NE Code § 30-3139 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3139 - Property not productive of income.

30-3139.  Property not productive of income.(a) If a marital deduction is allowed for all or part of a trust whose assets consist substantially of property that does not provide the spouse with sufficient income from or use of the trust assets, and if the amounts that the trustee transfers from principal to income under section 30-3119 and distributes to the spouse from principal pursuant to the terms of the trust are insufficient to provide the spouse with the beneficial enjoyment required to obtain the marital deduction, the spouse may require the trustee to make property productive of income, convert property within a reasonable time, or exercise the power conferred by subsection (a) of section 30-3119. The trustee may decide which action or combination of actions to take.(b) In cases not governed by subsection (a) of this section, proceeds from the sale or other disposition of an asset are principal without regard to the amount of income the asset produces during any accounting period.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 24.
NE Code § 30-3140 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3140 - Derivatives and options.

30-3140.  Derivatives and options.(a) In this section, derivative means a contract or financial instrument or a combination of contracts and financial instruments which gives a trust the right or obligation to participate in some or all changes in the price of a tangible or intangible asset or group of assets, or changes in a rate, an index of prices or rates, or other market indicator for an asset or a group of assets.(b) To the extent that a trustee does not account under section 30-3129 for transactions in derivatives, the trustee shall allocate to principal receipts from and disbursements made in connection with those transactions.(c) If a trustee grants an option to buy property from the trust, whether or not the trust owns the property when the option is granted, grants an option that permits another person to sell property to the trust, or acquires an option to buy property for the trust or an option to sell an asset owned by the trust, and the trustee or other owner of the asset is required to deliver the asset if the option is exercised, an amount received for granting the option must be allocated to principal. An amount paid to acquire the option must be paid from principal. A gain or loss realized upon the exercise of an option, including an option granted to a settlor of the trust for services rendered, must be allocated to principal.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 25.
NE Code § 30-3141 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3141 - Asset-backed securities.

30-3141.  Asset-backed securities.(a) In this section, asset-backed security means an asset whose value is based upon the right it gives the owner to receive distributions from the proceeds of financial assets that provide collateral for the security. The term includes an asset that gives the owner the right to receive from the collateral financial assets only the interest or other current return or only the proceeds other than interest or current return. The term does not include an asset to which section 30-3127 or 30-3135 applies.(b) If a trust receives a payment from interest or other current return and from other proceeds of the collateral financial assets, the trustee shall allocate to income the portion of the payment which the payer identifies as being from interest or other current return and shall allocate the balance of the payment to principal.(c) If a trust receives one or more payments in exchange for the trust's entire interest in an asset-backed security in one accounting period, the trustee shall allocate the payments to principal. If a payment is one of a series of payments that will result in the liquidation of the trust's interest in the security over more than one accounting period, the trustee shall allocate ten percent of the payment to income and the balance to principal.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 26.
NE Code § 30-3142 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3142 - Disbursements from income.

30-3142.  Disbursements from income.A trustee shall make the following disbursements from income to the extent that they are not disbursements to which subdivision (2)(B) or (C) of section 30-3122 applies:(1) one-half of the regular compensation of the trustee and of any person providing investment advisory or custodial services to the trustee;(2) one-half of all expenses for accountings, judicial proceedings, or other matters that involve both the income and remainder interests;(3) all of the other ordinary expenses incurred in connection with the administration, management, or preservation of trust property and the distribution of income, including interest, ordinary repairs, regularly recurring taxes assessed against principal, and expenses of a proceeding or other matter that concerns primarily the income interest; and(4) recurring premiums on insurance covering the loss of a principal asset or the loss of income from or use of the asset.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 27.
NE Code § 30-3143 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3143 - Disbursements from principal.

30-3143.  Disbursements from principal.(a) A trustee shall make the following disbursements from principal:(1) the remaining one-half of the disbursements described in subdivisions (1) and (2) of section 30-3142;(2) all of the trustee's compensation calculated on principal as a fee for acceptance, distribution, or termination, and disbursements made to prepare property for sale;(3) payments on the principal of a trust debt;(4) expenses of a proceeding that concerns primarily principal, including a proceeding to construe the trust or to protect the trust or its property;(5) premiums paid on a policy of insurance not described in subdivision (4) of section 30-3142 of which the trust is the owner and beneficiary;(6) estate, inheritance, and other transfer taxes, including penalties, apportioned to the trust; and(7) disbursements related to environmental matters, including reclamation, assessing environmental conditions, remedying and removing environmental contamination, monitoring remedial activities and the release of substances, preventing future releases of substances, collecting amounts from persons liable or potentially liable for the costs of those activities, penalties imposed under environmental laws or regulations and other payments made to comply with those laws or regulations, statutory or common-law claims by third parties, and defending claims based on environmental matters.(b) If a principal asset is encumbered with an obligation that requires income from that asset to be paid directly to the creditor, the trustee shall transfer from principal to income an amount equal to the income paid to the creditor in reduction of the principal balance of the obligation.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 28.
NE Code § 30-3144 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3144 - Transfers from income to principal for depreciation.

30-3144.  Transfers from income to principal for depreciation.(a) In this section, depreciation means a reduction in value due to wear, tear, decay, corrosion, or gradual obsolescence of a fixed asset having a useful life of more than one year.(b) A trustee may transfer to principal a reasonable amount of the net cash receipts from a principal asset that is subject to depreciation, but may not transfer any amount for depreciation:(1) of that portion of real property used or available for use by a beneficiary as a residence or of tangible personal property held or made available for the personal use or enjoyment of a beneficiary;(2) during the administration of a decedent's estate; or(3) under this section if the trustee is accounting under section 30-3129 for the business or activity in which the asset is used.(c) An amount transferred to principal need not be held as a separate fund.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 29.
NE Code § 30-3145 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3145 - Transfers from income to reimburse principal.

30-3145.  Transfers from income to reimburse principal.(a) If a trustee makes or expects to make a principal disbursement described in this section, the trustee may transfer an appropriate amount from income to principal in one or more accounting periods to reimburse principal or to provide a reserve for future principal disbursements.(b) Principal disbursements to which subsection (a) of this section applies include the following, but only to the extent that the trustee has not been and does not expect to be reimbursed by a third party:(1) an amount chargeable to income but paid from principal because it is unusually large, including extraordinary repairs;(2) a capital improvement to a principal asset, whether in the form of changes to an existing asset or the construction of a new asset, including special assessments;(3) disbursements made to prepare property for rental, including tenant allowances, leasehold improvements, and broker's commissions;(4) periodic payments on an obligation secured by a principal asset to the extent that the amount transferred from income to principal for depreciation is less than the periodic payments; and(5) disbursements described in subdivision (a)(7) of section 30-3143.(c) If the asset whose ownership gives rise to the disbursements becomes subject to a successive income interest after an income interest ends, a trustee may continue to transfer amounts from income to principal as provided in subsection (a) of this section.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 30.
NE Code § 30-3146 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3146 - Income taxes.

30-3146.  Income taxes.(a) A tax required to be paid by a trustee based on receipts allocated to income must be paid from income.(b) A tax required to be paid by a trustee based on receipts allocated to principal must be paid from principal, even if the tax is called an income tax by the taxing authority.(c) A tax required to be paid by a trustee on the trust's share of an entity's taxable income must be paid:(1) from income to the extent that receipts from the entity are allocated to income;(2) from principal to the extent that receipts from the entity are allocated only to principal;(3) proportionately from principal and income to the extent that receipts from the entity are allocated to both income and principal; and(4) from principal to the extent that the tax exceeds the total receipts from the entity.(d) After applying subsections (a) through (c) of this section, the trustee shall adjust income or principal receipts to the extent that the trust's taxes are reduced because the trust receives a deduction for payments made to a beneficiary.Source  Laws 2001, LB 56, § 31;  Laws 2009, LB80, § 3.
NE Code § 30-3147 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3147 - Adjustments between principal and income because of taxes.

30-3147.  Adjustments between principal and income because of taxes.(a) A fiduciary may make adjustments between principal and income to offset the shifting of economic interests or tax benefits between income beneficiaries and remainder beneficiaries which arise from:(1) elections and decisions, other than those described in subsection (b) of this section, that the fiduciary makes from time to time regarding tax matters;(2) an income tax or any other tax that is imposed upon the fiduciary or a beneficiary as a result of a transaction involving or a distribution from the estate or trust; or(3) the ownership by an estate or trust of an interest in an entity whose taxable income, whether or not distributed, is includable in the taxable income of the estate, trust, or a beneficiary.(b) If the amount of an estate tax marital deduction or charitable contribution deduction is reduced because a fiduciary deducts an amount paid from principal for income tax purposes instead of deducting it for estate tax purposes, and as a result estate taxes paid from principal are increased and income taxes paid by an estate, trust, or beneficiary are decreased, each estate, trust, or beneficiary that benefits from the decrease in income tax shall reimburse the principal from which the increase in estate tax is paid. The total reimbursement must equal the increase in the estate tax to the extent that the principal used to pay the increase would have qualified for a marital deduction or charitable contribution deduction but for the payment. The proportionate share of the reimbursement for each estate, trust, or beneficiary whose income taxes are reduced must be the same as its proportionate share of the total decrease in income tax. An estate or trust shall reimburse principal from income.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 32.
NE Code § 30-3148 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3148 - Uniformity of application and construction.

30-3148.  Uniformity of application and construction.In applying and construing the Uniform Principal and Income Act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 33.
NE Code § 30-3149 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3149 - Application of act to existing trusts and estates.

30-3149.  Application of act to existing trusts and estates.The Uniform Principal and Income Act applies to every trust or decedent's estate existing on September 1, 2001, except as otherwise expressly provided in the will or terms of the trust or in the act.Source Laws 2001, LB 56, § 34.
NE Code § 30-3201 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3201 - Investment of funds; prudent investor rule.

30-3201.  Investment of funds; prudent investor rule.Except as may be otherwise provided in section 8-318, or otherwise provided by law or by the instrument creating the fiduciary relationship involved, each and every trustee, guardian, conservator, executor, or administrator, whether appointed by the courts of this state, or acting under authority other than a court appointment, having funds for investment shall comply with the prudent investor rule set forth in sections 30-3883 to 30-3889.Source   Laws 1933, c. 64, § 1, p. 299;   Laws 1935, c. 68, § 1, p. 245;   Laws 1937, c. 60, § 1, p. 237;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 27-601;   Laws 1943, c. 66, § 1, p. 242;   R.S.1943, § 24-601;   Laws 1945, c. 56, § 1, p. 243;   Laws 1947, c. 79, § 1, p. 248;   Laws 1953, c. 67, § 2, p. 213;   Laws 1955, c. 82, § 1, p. 238;   Laws 1959, c. 263, § 9, p. 931;   Laws 1963, c. 134, § 1, p. 505;   Laws 1965, c. 113, § 1, p. 438;   Laws 1975, LB 481, § 8;   R.S.1943, (1985), § 24-601;   Laws 1997, LB 54, § 18;  Laws 2003, LB 130, § 134.  Annotations Inherent jurisdiction of district court over trusts conferred by the Constitution is not affected by this section. John A. Creighton Home v. Waltman, 140 Neb. 3, 299 N.W. 261 (1941).
NE Code § 30-3202 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 30 - Decedents' Estates; Protection of Persons and Property|30-3202 - Sections; applicability.

30-3202.  Sections; applicability.Sections 30-3201 and 30-3207 shall apply to fiduciary relationships now in existence or hereafter established.Source   Laws 1953, c. 67, § 3, p. 218;   R.S.1943, (1985), § 24-601.02.