2015 Code of Alabama
Title 19 - FIDUCIARIES AND TRUSTS.
Chapter 3B - ALABAMA UNIFORM TRUST CODE.
Section 19-3B-201 - Role of court in administration of trust.

AL Code § 19-3B-201 (2015) What's This?
Section 19-3B-201Role of court in administration of trust.

(a) The court may intervene in the administration of a trust to the extent its jurisdiction is invoked by an interested person or as provided by law.

(b) A trust is not subject to continuing judicial supervision unless ordered by the court.

(c) A judicial proceeding involving a trust may relate to any matter involving the trust's administration, including a request for instructions and an action to declare rights.

(d) A judicial proceeding involving a trust may relate to any matter involving the trust's administration, including, but not being limited to a proceeding to:

(1) request instructions;

(2) determine the existence or nonexistence of any immunity, power, privilege, duty or right;

(3) approve a nonjudicial settlement;

(4) interpret or construe the terms of the trust;

(5) determine the validity of a trust or of any of its terms;

(6) approve a trustee's report or accounting or compel a trustee to report or account;

(7) direct a trustee to refrain from performing a particular act or grant to a trustee any necessary or desirable power;

(8) review the actions or approve the proposed actions of a trustee, including the exercise of a discretionary power;

(9) accept the resignation of a trustee;

(10) appoint or remove a trustee;

(11) determine a trustee's compensation;

(12) transfer a trust's principal place of administration or a trust's property to another jurisdiction;

(13) determine the liability of a trustee for an action relating to the trust and compel redress of a breach of trust by any available remedy;

(14) modify or terminate a trust;

(15) combine trusts or divide a trust;

(16) determine liability of a trust for debts of a beneficiary and living settlor;

(17) determine liability of a trust for debts, expenses of administration, and statutory allowances chargeable against the estate of a deceased settlor;

(18) determine the liability of a trust for claims, expenses and taxes in connection with the settlement of a trust that was revocable at the settlor's death; and

(19) ascertain beneficiaries and determine to whom property will pass upon final or partial termination of a trust.

(Act 2006-216, p. 314, §1.)

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