(760 ILCS 5/4.25)
Sec. 4.25. Severance and consolidation. To sever any trust estate on a fractional basis into 2 or more separate trusts for any reason; to segregate by allocation to a separate account or trust a specific amount or gift made from any trust to reflect a partial disclaimer, to reflect or result in differences in federal tax attributes, to satisfy any federal tax requirement or election, or to reduce potential generation-skipping transfer tax liability, in a manner consistent with the rules governing disclaimers, such federal tax attributes, such requirements or elections, or any applicable tax rules or regulations, and income earned on a segregated amount or gift after segregation occurs shall pass to the designated take of such amount or gift; and to consolidate 2 or more trusts having substantially similar terms into a single trust. In managing, investing, administering, and distributing the trust property of any separate account or trust and in making applicable tax elections, the trustee may consider the differences in federal tax attributes and all other factors the trustee believes pertinent and may make disproportionate distributions from the separate trusts created. A separate account or trust created by severance or segregation shall be treated as a separate trust for all purposes from and after the date on which the severance or segregation is effective, and shall be held on terms and conditions that are substantially equivalent to the terms of the trust from which it was severed or segregated so that the aggregate interests of each beneficiary in the several trusts are substantially equivalent to the beneficiary's interests in the trust before severance, provided, however, that any terms of the trust before severance that would affect qualification of the trust for any federal tax deduction, exclusion, election, exemption, or other special federal tax status must remain identical in each of the separate trusts created. The provisions of this amendatory Act of 1993 apply to all trusts created, and actions taken before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993.
(Source: P.A. 88-367.)
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