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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="9-201" title_number="9" title_name="Special Provisions Relating to Distribution" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Beneficiary designation” means an instrument, other than an instrument creating a trust, naming the beneficiary of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An annuity or insurance policy;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An account with a designation for payment on death;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A security registered in beneficiary form;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A pension, profit–sharing, retirement, or other employment–related benefit plan; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Any other nonprobate transfer at death.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Disclaimant” means the person to whom a disclaimed interest or power would have passed had the disclaimer not been made.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Disclaimed interest” means the interest that would have passed to the disclaimant had the disclaimer not been made.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Disclaimer” means the refusal to accept an interest in or power over property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Fiduciary” means a personal representative, trustee, agent acting under a power of attorney, or other person authorized to act as a fiduciary with respect to the property of another person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Future interest” means an interest that takes effect in possession or enjoyment, if at all, later than the time of its creation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Jointly held property” means property held in the name of two or more persons under an arrangement in which all holders have concurrent interests and under which the last surviving holder is entitled to the whole of the property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, statutory trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, governmental subdivision, governmental agency, governmental instrumentality, public corporation, legal entity, or commercial entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Time of distribution” means the time when a disclaimed interest would have taken effect in possession or enjoyment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Trust” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An express trust, charitable or noncharitable, whenever and however created; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A trust created pursuant to a statute, judgment, or decree that requires that the trust be administered in the manner of an express trust.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
