Indiana Code
Chapter 8. Legacy Trusts
30-4-8-2. Definitions

Sec. 2. Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply throughout this chapter:
(1) "Claim" means a right to payment, regardless of whether the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, immature, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured.
(2) "Creditor" means a person who has a claim against the transferor.
(3) "Debt" means liability on a claim.
(4) "Disposition" means a transfer, conveyance, or assignment of property, including a change in the legal ownership of property that occurs when a trustee is substituted for another trustee or when at least one (1) trustee is added. The term also includes the exercise of a power that causes a transfer of property to a trustee. However, the term does not include the release or relinquishment of an interest in property that, until the release or relinquishment, was the subject of a qualified disposition.
(5) "Investment decision" means the retention, purchase, sale, exchange, tender, or other transaction affecting the ownership of or rights in an investment.
(6) "Legacy trust" means an irrevocable trust established under section 3 of this chapter.
(7) "Lender" means a company or entity that extends credit, including but not limited to a financial institution (as defined by IC 28-1-1-3(1)), a company or entity that extends credit under IC 24-4.4 or IC 24-4.5, or the successors and assigns of the company or entity.
(8) "Person" means an individual at least eighteen (18) years of age, a corporation, a trust, a limited liability company, a limited liability partnership, a partnership, a governmental entity, the state, or a political subdivision of the state.
(9) "Property" means real property, personal property, or an interest in real or personal property.
(10) "Qualified affidavit" means a sworn affidavit executed under section 5 of this chapter.
(11) "Qualified disposition" means a disposition by a transferor to a legacy trust.
(12) "Qualified trustee" means a person qualified to serve as the trustee of a legacy trust under section 6 of this chapter.
(13) "Transferor" means a person who as:
(A) an owner of property;
(B) a holder of a power of appointment that authorizes the holder to appoint in favor of the holder, the holder's creditors, the holder's estate, or the creditors of the holder's estate; or
(C) a trustee;
directly or indirectly makes a disposition or causes a disposition to be made.
(14) "Trust director" means a person given authority by the terms of a legacy trust to direct, consent to, or disapprove actual or proposed investment decisions, distribution decisions, or other decisions related to property in a legacy trust.
As added by P.L.221-2019, SEC.9.