- (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.)