Sec. 20. (a) An income beneficiary is entitled to net income from the date on which the income interest begins. An income interest begins on the date specified in the terms of the trust or, if no date is specified, on the date an asset becomes subject to a trust or successive income interest.

(b) An asset becomes subject to a trust on the following dates:

(1) On the date the asset is transferred to the trust, in the case of an asset that is transferred to a trust during the transferor's life.

(2) On the date the asset is distributed to the trust from the decedent's estate, if the income received during the administration of the estate was accounted for and distributed by the estate as part of the corpus of the estate in accordance with IC 29-1-17-7.

(3) On the date of the decedent's death if, under the terms of the decedent's will or other applicable law, income received during administration of the decedent's estate was accounted for and distributed by the estate as income, and not as part of the corpus of the estate.

(4) On the date of an individual's death, in the case of an asset that is not part of the probate estate (as defined in IC 29-1-1-3) and that is transferred to a trust or becomes a part of a trust because of the individual's death.

(c) An asset becomes subject to a successive income interest on the day after the preceding income interest ends, as determined under subsection (d), even if there is an intervening period of administration to wind up the preceding income interest.

(d) An income interest ends on the day before an income beneficiary dies or another terminating event occurs, or on the last day of a period during which there is no beneficiary to whom a trustee may distribute income.

(e) This section applies only for purposes of determining the period in which an income beneficiary is entitled or eligible to receive any net income of a trust. This section does not control how receipts and disbursements are allocated to or between principal and income during that period. Amounts received by a trust from a decedent's estate or another trust as a distribution of principal may be allocable to principal under section 24 of this chapter even to the extent the amounts received include income of the distributing estate or trust received or accrued after the beneficiary's income interest begins.

As added by P.L.84-2002, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.51-2014, SEC.15.