After a decedent dies, in the case of an estate, or after an income interest in a trust ends, the following rules apply:
1. A fiduciary of an estate or of a terminating income interest shall determine the amount of net income and net principal receipts received from property specifically given to a beneficiary under the rules in NRS 164.810 to 164.925, inclusive, which apply to trustees and the rules in subsection 5. The fiduciary shall distribute the net income and net principal receipts to the beneficiary who is to receive the specific property.
2. A fiduciary shall determine the remaining net income of a decedent’s estate or a terminating income interest under the rules in NRS 164.810 to 164.925, inclusive, which apply to trustees and by:
(a) Including in net income all income from property used to discharge liabilities;
(b) Paying from income or principal, in his or her discretion, fees of attorneys, accountants and fiduciaries, court costs and other expenses of administration, and interest on death taxes, but the fiduciary may pay those expenses from income of property passing to a trust for which the fiduciary claims an estate tax marital or charitable deduction only to the extent that the payment of those expenses from income will not cause the reduction or loss of the deduction; and
(c) Paying from principal all other disbursements made or incurred in connection with the settlement of a decedent’s estate or the winding up of a terminating income interest, including debts, funeral expenses, disposition of remains, family allowances, and death taxes and related penalties that are apportioned to the estate or terminating income interest by the will, the terms of the trust, or applicable law.
3. A fiduciary shall distribute to a beneficiary who receives a pecuniary amount outright the interest or any other amount provided by the will, the terms of the trust, or applicable law from net income determined under subsection 2 or from principal to the extent that net income is insufficient. If a beneficiary is to receive a pecuniary amount outright from a trust after an income interest ends and no interest or other amount is provided for by the terms of the trust or applicable law, the fiduciary shall distribute the interest or other amount to which the beneficiary would be entitled under applicable law if the pecuniary amount were required to be paid under a will.
4. A fiduciary shall distribute the net income remaining after distributions required by subsection 3 in the manner described in NRS 164.805 to all other beneficiaries, including a beneficiary who receives a pecuniary amount in trust, even if he or she holds an unqualified power to withdraw assets from the trust or other presently exercisable general power of appointment over the trust.
5. A fiduciary may not reduce principal or income receipts from property described in subsection 1 because of a payment described in NRS 164.900 or 164.905 to the extent that the will, the terms of the trust, or applicable law requires the fiduciary to make the payment from assets other than the property or to the extent the fiduciary recovers or expects to recover the payment from a third party. The net income and principal receipts from the property are determined by including all the amounts the fiduciary receives or pays with respect to the property, whether those amounts accrued or became due before, on, or after the date of a decedent’s death or an income interest’s terminating event, and by making a reasonable provision for amounts that the fiduciary believes the estate or terminating income interest may become obligated to pay after the property is distributed.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 1971)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 164 - Administration of Trusts
NRS 164.030 - Petition for instructions: Notice; hearing; final order; appeal.
NRS 164.037 - Petitions: Notice and hearing.
NRS 164.043 - Expenses and compensation of trustees.
NRS 164.067 - Power to sell, convey or encumber.
NRS 164.080 - Establishment; investments; management.
NRS 164.100 - Uniformity of interpretation.
NRS 164.130 - Transfer by court to district court in this State or court outside Nevada.
NRS 164.400 - Presentation; effect; form.
NRS 164.430 - Reliance upon facts contained in certification; enforceability.
NRS 164.440 - Failure to demand certification not improper act; liability.
NRS 164.645 - "Charitable purpose" defined.
NRS 164.647 - "Endowment fund" defined.
NRS 164.650 - "Gift instrument" defined.
NRS 164.653 - "Institution" defined.
NRS 164.655 - "Institutional fund" defined.
NRS 164.657 - "Person" defined.
NRS 164.660 - "Program-related asset" defined.
NRS 164.663 - "Record" defined.
NRS 164.665 - Standard of conduct in managing and investing institutional fund.
NRS 164.670 - Delegation of management and investment functions.
NRS 164.673 - Release or modification of restrictions on management, investment or purpose.
NRS 164.675 - Reviewing compliance.
NRS 164.677 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
NRS 164.680 - Uniformity of application and construction.
NRS 164.715 - Acting in interest of beneficiaries.
NRS 164.720 - Trust having two or more beneficiaries; impartial administration of trust or estate.
NRS 164.750 - Diversification of investments.
NRS 164.760 - Incurring costs.
NRS 164.765 - Determination of compliance with prudent investor rule.
NRS 164.775 - Terms and language of trust which authorize certain investments or strategies.
NRS 164.797 - Administration of unitrust: Duties of trustee; valuation of assets of trust.
NRS 164.798 - Administration of unitrust: Powers of trustee; manner of distributions.
NRS 164.800 - Applicable rules after death of decedent or end of income interest in trust.
NRS 164.835 - Accounting separately for business or other activity.
NRS 164.840 - Allocation of assets, money, property and other receipts to principal.
NRS 164.870 - Allocation of receipts from liquidating assets to income and principal.
NRS 164.905 - Disbursements required to be made from principal.
NRS 164.915 - Transfer of amount from income to principal to make certain principal disbursements.
NRS 164.920 - Payment of taxes required to be paid by trustee.
NRS 164.960 - Applicability of NRS 111.781 to transfers of property made pursuant to trust.