California · Probate Code

PROB §16620: The terms of a trust may relieve a cotrustee from duty and liability with respect to another cotrustee’s exercise or nonexercise of a power of the other cotrustee to the same extent that, in a directe

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A trust document may remove a cotrustee's responsibility and legal liability for another cotrustee's actions or inactions regarding that cotrustee's powers, to the same extent as direct provisions allow.

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The terms of a trust may relieve a cotrustee from duty and liability with respect to another cotrustee’s exercise or nonexercise of a power of the other cotrustee to the same extent that, in a directed trust, a directed trustee is relieved from duty and liability with respect to a trust director’s power of direction under Sections 16614, 16616, and 16618.

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