ESTATE OF HARRY PRUDOWSKY, DECEASED, VIVIAN PRUDOWSKY, ADMINISTRATRIX, PETITIONER-APPELLANT,
v.
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT-APPELLEE

7th Cir. | 1972-07-25
No. 71-1716
465 F.2d 62 United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1972) Positive Treatment
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Holding

The court held that assets held under the Wisconsin Uniform Gifts to Minors Act are includible in the decedent's estate because the statutory terms granting the custodian power to use assets for support and to terminate the custodianship are not superseded by the decedent's subjective intentions.


Facts & Procedural History

The decedent held assets as custodian for his minor children under the Wisconsin Uniform Gifts to Minors Act, having been the donor of the assets. The…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

At death decedent held assets as custodian for his minor children under the Wisconsin Uniform Gifts to Minors Act.2 Decedent had been donor of the assets. The tax court held3 the assets to be includible in decedent’s estate under both sections 2036 and 2038(a) (1) of the 1954 Internal Revenue Code.4 The facts and reasoning are set forth in the tax court decision. We affirm.

On appeal, taxpayer has again stressed the contention that although the statutory terms of his custodianship reserved to him the power to use the assets to discharge his own obligation of support (thus bringing § 2036 into play) and to turn the assets over to the children before their majority (thus arousing § 2038), there is evidence which so clearly establishes his intention not to do either that he had effectively foreclosed the existence of such powers. We do not agree that the subjective and unilateral intentions claimed would supersede the statutory terms of custodianship.

In Stuit v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 452 F. 2d 190 (7th Cir., 1971), assets of a custodianship under the Illinois uniform act were held, by virtue of § 2038, to be includible in the estate of the donor custodian. We said the decedent had the power to distribute the entire custodial property to the donees and terminate the arrangement. We find no adequate distinction.

The judgment is affirmed.

. Now §§ 880.61-71, 1971 Wis.Stats., formerly §§ 319.61-.71, Stats.

. 55 T.C. No. 90.

. 26 U.S.C. §§ 2036, 2038(a) (1).


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