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MN SF571

Bill

Status

Passed

5/6/2025

Primary Sponsor

Bonnie Westlin

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Origin

Senate

94th Legislature 2025-2026

AI Summary

  • Extends the rule against perpetuities from 90 years to 500 years for trusts created on or after August 1, 2025, unless the trust specifies a shorter period

  • Increases the threshold for terminating an "uneconomic trust" from $50,000 to $150,000, allowing trustees to terminate small trusts when administration costs exceed the trust's value

  • Clarifies and expands powers of trust advisors and protectors, including allowing distribution trust advisors to direct trust termination and removing the trust protector's standalone power to veto or direct distributions

  • Expands parental disinheritance provisions to bar parents from inheriting from adult children (over 18) if parental rights could have been terminated during minority and parent-child estrangement existed in the year before death

  • Modifies divorce revocation rules to automatically revoke dispositions and fiduciary nominations to a former spouse's family members (not just the former spouse) upon dissolution of marriage

Legislative Description

Uniform Trust Code, Powers of Appointment, and Uniform Probate Code provisions modifications

Last Action

Secretary of State, Filed

5/7/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary and Public Safety1/23/2025

Full Bill Text

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