Title Examination Standards
Chapter 1, App.
Chapter 15. Trusts and Trustees
§15.2.1 Conveyances By an Express Private Trust or by the Trustee or Trustees of an Express Private Trust.

1. A. When record title to real property is held in the name of a trustee or trustees of a named express private trust, a subsequent, otherwise valid, conveyance identifying such trust as the grantor, rather than the trustee or trustees of such trust as the grantor, shall not be deemed to be a defect of title, subject to compliance with 60 O.S. § 175.6a.

2. B. When record title to real property is held in the name of an express private trust, rather than in the trustee or trustees of such trust, a subsequent, otherwise valid, conveyance identifying the trustee or trustees of the named trust as the grantor shall not be deemed to be a defect of title, subject to compliance with 60 O.S. § 175.6a.

   Authority: 16 O.S. § 1 and 60 O.S. §§ 175.6a, 175.7, 175.16, 175.17, 175.24, and 175.45.

The 2015 Title Examination Standards Sub-Committee proposed adding this new Standard No. 15.2.1 to clarify who is a proper grantor of conveyance by an Express Private Trust or the Trustee of an Express Private Trust. The Real Property Section approved the proposal on November 5, 2015 and the House of Delegates adopted the amendment on November 6, 2015.