1. If it appears upon any accounting, or in any appropriate action or proceeding, that a personal representative, trustee or other fiduciary has paid or may be required to pay an estate tax to the Federal Government under the provisions of any federal estate tax law, now existing or hereafter enacted, upon or with respect to any property required to be included in the gross estate of a decedent under the provisions of any such law, the amount of the tax must be equitably prorated among the persons interested in the estate, whether residents or nonresidents of this State, to whom the property was, is or may be transferred or to whom any benefit accrues, except:
(a) Where a testator otherwise directs in his or her will.
(b) Where by written instrument, including, without limitation, an electronic trust, executed inter vivos direction is given for apportionment among the beneficiaries of taxes assessed upon the specific fund dealt with in the instrument.
2. As used in this section, "electronic trust" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 163.0015.
(Added to NRS by 1957, 228; A 1999, 2338; 2001, 2348)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 150 - Compensation and Accounting
NRS 150.010 - Expenses and compensation of personal representative.
NRS 150.020 - General compensation.
NRS 150.025 - Compensation of personal representative who is an attorney.
NRS 150.030 - Compensation for extraordinary services.
NRS 150.040 - Contracts for higher compensation void.
NRS 150.050 - Allowance on compensation.
NRS 150.061 - Attorneys for personal representatives: Compensation for extraordinary services.
NRS 150.075 - Waiver of accounting.
NRS 150.080 - First account: Filing and contents.
NRS 150.100 - Penalties for failure to file first account.
NRS 150.105 - Annual account: Contents.
NRS 150.110 - Final account: Filing; penalties for failure to file.
NRS 150.115 - Supplementary account to final account.
NRS 150.120 - Accounting when authority of personal representative ceases.
NRS 150.140 - Revocation of letters when personal representative absconds and fails to account.
NRS 150.160 - Account and petition for settlement: Hearing and notice.
NRS 150.170 - Contest of account: Rights of interested person; hearing.
NRS 150.190 - Proof of notice necessary before allowance of account.
NRS 150.200 - Allowance and confirmation of account.
NRS 150.210 - Effect of order settling account.
NRS 150.250 - Claims not yet due and contingent or disputed claim.
NRS 150.260 - Liability of personal representative.
NRS 150.270 - Claim not included in order of payment.
NRS 150.280 - Closing administration.
NRS 150.310 - Proration of tax among persons interested in estate; exceptions.
NRS 150.320 - Direction for apportionment of estate tax: Precedence; limitation.
NRS 150.330 - Jurisdiction of court; methods of proration.
NRS 150.340 - Present and future estates: Charge of tax against corpus without apportionment.