TITLE LVI
PROBATE COURTS AND DECEDENTS' ESTATES

CHAPTER 564-F
NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION ACT

ARTICLE 14
Beneficiaries

Section 564-F:14-1401

    564-F:14-1401 Nature of Beneficial Interests. –
(a) Subject to subsection (b), a beneficiary's interest is a mere expectancy and is not a property interest or an enforceable right.
(b) A beneficiary's interest is a property interest to the extent that:
(1) The beneficiary has a currently exercisable power to appoint the foundation's property to himself, herself, or itself without the consent of any other person; or
(2) The directors have failed to make a distribution to the beneficiary in accordance with a provision of the governing documents requiring the directors to make that distribution.
(c) For the purposes of determining a beneficiary's interest, the founder's intent as expressed in the terms of the governing documents shall be paramount.

Source. 2017, 257:47, eff. Oct. 1, 2017.