Rules of classification
Va. Code Ann. § 64.2-2711
in effectA. As used in this section, "adverse party" means a person with a substantial beneficial interest in property which would be affected adversely by a powerholder's exercise or nonexercise of a power of appointment in favor of the powerholder, the powerholder's estate, a creditor of the powerholder, or a creditor of the powerholder's estate.
B. If a powerholder may exercise a power of appointment only with the consent or joinder of an adverse party, the power is nongeneral.
C. Only a power of appointment whose permissible appointees are defined and limited can be nonexclusionary.
2016, c. 266 .
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