If a party challenges a settlor or a beneficiary's influence over a trust, none of the following factors, alone or in combination, may be considered dominion and control over a trust:
- (1) A beneficiary serving as a trustee or co-trustee.
- (2) The settlor or beneficiary holds an unrestricted power to remove or replace a trustee.
(3) The settlor or a beneficiary:
- (A) is a trust administrator, a general partner of a partnership, a manager of a limited liability company, or an officer of a corporation; or
(B) has any other managerial function in any other entity;
that is owned in whole or in part by the trust.
- (4) A person related by blood or adoption to a settlor or beneficiary is appointed as trustee.
- (5) An agent, accountant, attorney, financial adviser, or friend of the settlor or a beneficiary is appointed as trustee.
- (6) A business associate of the settlor or a beneficiary is appointed as trustee.
- (7) A beneficiary holds any power of appointment over part or all of the trust property.
- (8) The settlor holds a power to substitute property of equivalent value.
- (9) The trustee may loan trust property to the settlor for less than a full and adequate rate of interest or without adequate security.
- (10) The trust contains broad purposes or highly discretionary distribution language.
- (11) The trust has only one (1) beneficiary eligible for current distributions.
As added by P.L.6-2010, SEC.15.