Statutes > Idaho Statutes > TITLE 15 UNIFORM PROBATE CODE > CHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEFINITIONS AND PROBATE JURISDICTION OF COURT > PART 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS > 15-1-501 CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN FORMULA CLAUSES.

15-1-501 CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN FORMULA CLAUSES.

TITLE 15

UNIFORM PROBATE CODE

CHAPTER 1

GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEFINITIONS AND PROBATE JURISDICTION OF COURT

PART 5.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

15-1-501. construction of certain formula clauses. (1) A will or trust of a decedent who dies after December 31, 2009, and before January 1, 2011, that contains a formula referring to the "unified credit," "estate tax exemption," "applicable exemption amount," "applicable credit amount," "applicable exclusion amount," "generation-skipping transfer tax exemption," "GST exemption," "marital deduction," "maximum marital deduction" or "unlimited marital deduction," or that measures a share of an estate or trust based on the amount that can pass free of federal estate taxes or the amount that can pass free of federal generation-skipping transfer taxes, or that is otherwise based on a similar provision of federal estate tax or generation-skipping transfer tax law, shall be deemed to refer to the federal estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws as they applied with respect to estates of decedents dying on December 31, 2009. This subsection shall not apply with respect to a will or trust that is executed or amended after December 31, 2009, or that manifests an intent that a contrary rule shall apply if the decedent dies on a date on which there is no then-applicable federal estate or generation-skipping transfer tax. The reference to January 1, 2011, in this subsection shall, if the federal estate and generation-skipping transfer tax becomes effective before that date, refer instead to the first date on which such tax shall become legally effective.

(2) The personal representative, trustee or any affected beneficiary under the will or trust may bring a proceeding to determine whether the decedent intended that the references under subsection (1) of this section be construed with respect to the law as it existed after December 31, 2009. Such a proceeding must be commenced within twelve (12) months following the death of the testator or grantor, and not thereafter.

(3) This section shall apply to all proceedings pending before the courts of this state on the effective date of this act.