2023 Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 35. TRUSTS
Subchapter III. General Provisions
§ 3543. Distribution of estate or trust assets without creation of trust.
If the terms of a will or a writing creating a trust, including, but not limited to an inter vivos trust agreement, provide for the establishment of a trust all the assets of which, due to the circumstances existing at the time the trust is to be established, are required to be distributed to the trust's beneficiary or beneficiaries immediately, the executor, trustee, or other party having possession of the property with which such trust will be established, is authorized to make direct distribution to the beneficiary or beneficiaries of the trust, rather than to the trustee, without the necessity of a Court petition. The receipts of such beneficiaries shall protect the executor, trustee, or other party having possession of the property with which such trust would be established, to the same extent as the receipt of the trustee.
65 Del. Laws, c. 422, § 7; 76 Del. Laws, c. 90, § 7;
