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1. 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.
2. If a powerholder may exercise a power of appointment only with the consent or joinder of an adverse party, the power is nongeneral.
3. If the permissible appointees of a power of appointment are not defined and limited, the power is exclusionary.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Missouri Revised Statutes Title XXXI. Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability § 456.1005. Rules of classification - last updated January 01, 2018 | https://codes.findlaw.com/mo/title-xxxi-trusts-and-estates-of-decedents-and-persons-under-disability/mo-rev-st-456-1005/
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