Intro. The Uniform Trust Code (UTC) is a mere aggregation of tweaks to the corner of equity jurisprudence that long ago gave birth to and currently stewards the trust relationship, hereinafter “the ...
Trust-instrument scriveners, and estate-planning professional generally, watch out. The Uniform Trust Code’s mistake-based reformation section, specifically §415, is a gift to the trial lawyers. In ...
The representation provisions of the Uniform Trust Code (UTC), 1 contained in Article 3, are among its most consequential and its most complicated in application. They comprise a harmonious statutory ...
New Jersey, because of its well established case law, is not a jurisdiction that needs the Uniform Trust Code, but there are still excellent reasons for adopting it. What is the Uniform Trust Code ...
Donald D. Kozusko, partner, Kozusko Lahey Harris LLP, Washington, D.C. Despite its scope, the Uniform Trust Code (UTC) has provoked surprisingly little debate since it was first proposed by the ...