RCW 11.95A.100
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(1)A power of appointment is created only if:
(a)The instrument creating the power:
(i)Is valid under applicable law; and
(ii)Except as otherwise provided in subsection
(2)of this section, transfers the appointive property; and
(b)The terms of the instrument creating the power manifest the donor's intent to create in a powerholder a power of appointment over the appointive property exercisable in favor of a permissible appointee.
(2)Subsection (1)(a)(ii) of this section does not apply to the creation of a power of appointment by the exercise of a power of appointment.
(3)A power of appointment may not be created in a deceased individual.
(4)Subject to an applicable rule against perpetuities, a power of appointment may be created in an unborn or unascertained powerholder.
[ 2021 c 140 s 3201 .]