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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="14.5-507" title_number="14.5" title_name="Maryland Trust Act" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Creditor’s Claims; Spendthrift and Discretionary Trusts">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A power of appointment held by a person other than the settlor of the trust is not a property interest.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A power of appointment described in paragraph (1) of this subsection and property subject to that power of appointment may not be judicially foreclosed or attached by a creditor of the holder of the power.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>None of the following shall be sufficient to create a general power of appointment or a power of withdrawal with respect to a beneficiary or settlor:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The beneficiary serving as a trustee or cotrustee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The settlor or the beneficiary holding an unrestricted power to remove or replace a trustee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The settlor or the beneficiary of a trust serving as a trust administrator, a partner of a partnership, a manager of a limited liability company, or an officer of a corporation, or serving in another managerial function of another type of entity if part or all of the trust property consists of an interest in the entity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A person related by blood or adoption to the settlor or the beneficiary serving as trustee of the trust;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The agent, accountant, attorney, financial adviser, or friend of the settlor or beneficiary serving as trustee of the trust;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>A business associate of the settlor or the beneficiary serving as trustee of the trust;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>A power of appointment held by the settlor other than the reserved power of the settlor to withdraw trust property for the benefit of the settlor, the creditors of the settlor, the estate of the settlor, or the creditors of the estate of the settlor;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>A power to substitute property of equivalent value for trust property as defined in § 675(4)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>A power to borrow trust property for less than adequate interest or without security as defined in § 675(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
