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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="9-209" 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>Subject to subsections (b) through (k) of this section, delivery of a disclaimer may be effected by personal delivery, first-class mail, or any other method likely to result in its receipt.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In the case of an interest created under the law of intestate succession or an interest created by will, other than an interest in a testamentary trust:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A disclaimer shall be delivered to the personal representative for the decedent’s estate; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If there is no personal representative, it shall be filed with a court having jurisdiction to appoint the personal representative.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In the case of an interest in a testamentary trust:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A disclaimer shall be delivered to the trustee, or if no trustee is then serving, to the personal representative of the decedent’s estate; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If there is no personal representative, it shall be filed with a court having jurisdiction to enforce the trust.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In the case of an interest in an inter vivos trust, a disclaimer shall be delivered to the trustee.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If there is no trustee, it shall be filed with a court having jurisdiction to enforce the trust.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the disclaimer is made before the time the instrument creating the trust becomes irrevocable, it shall be delivered to the settlor of a revocable trust or the transferor of the interest.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>In the case of an interest created by a beneficiary designation that is disclaimed before the designation becomes irrevocable, the disclaimer shall be delivered to the person making the beneficiary designation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>In the case of an interest created by a beneficiary designation that is disclaimed after the designation becomes irrevocable:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The disclaimer of an interest in personal property shall be delivered to the person obligated to distribute the interest; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The disclaimer of an interest in real property must be recorded in the land records of the county where the real property that is the subject of the disclaimer is located.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>In the case of a disclaimer by a surviving holder of jointly held property, the disclaimer shall be delivered to the person to whom the disclaimed interest passes.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>In the case of a disclaimer by an object or taker in default of exercise of a power of appointment at any time after the power was created:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The disclaimer shall be delivered to the holder of the power or to the fiduciary acting under the instrument that created the power; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If there is no fiduciary, it shall be filed with a court having authority to appoint the fiduciary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>In the case of a disclaimer by an appointee of a nonfiduciary power of appointment:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The disclaimer shall be delivered to the holder, the personal representative of the holder’s estate, or to the fiduciary under the instrument that created the power; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If there is no fiduciary, it shall be filed with a court having authority to appoint the fiduciary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>In the case of a disclaimer by a fiduciary of a power over a trust or estate, the disclaimer shall be delivered as provided in subsection (b), (c), or (d) of this section as if the power disclaimed were an interest in property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>In the case of a disclaimer of a power by an agent, the disclaimer shall be delivered to the principal or the principal’s representative.</text>
  </level>
</section>
