RCW 11.95A.290
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To the extent a powerholder releases or fails to exercise a general power of appointment other than a power to withdraw property from, revoke, or amend a trust:
(1)The gift-in-default clause controls the disposition of the unappointed property; or
(2)If there is no gift-in-default clause or to the extent the clause is ineffective:
(a)Except as otherwise provided in
(b)of this subsection, the unappointed property passes to:
(i)The powerholder if the powerholder is a permissible appointee and living; or
(ii)If the powerholder is an impermissible appointee or deceased, the powerholder's estate if the estate is a permissible appointee; or
(b)To the extent the powerholder released the power, or if there is no taker under
(a)of this subsection, the unappointed property passes under a reversionary interest to the donor or the donor's transferee or successor in interest.
[ 2021 c 140 s 3310 .]