(a) The power to appoint a successor trustee under a governing instrument shall be deemed to include the power to appoint multiple successor trustees and additional trustees. The power to appoint multiple successor trustees and additional trustees shall be deemed to include the power to allocate various trustee powers exclusively to 1 or some of the trustees serving from time to time.
(b) All of the provisions of a governing instrument generally applicable to the trustees (including, but not limited to, the provisions regarding trustee qualifications, resignation, removal, standard of care, indemnification, compensation, and the scope and nature of the restrictions, limitations, and immunities applicable when exercising powers and authority) shall apply to trustees appointed under this section so that, for example (but not by way of limitation):
(1) Provisions waiving certain duties when exercising certain investment powers shall apply equally to trustees appointed under this section;
(2) Provisions permitting the removal and replacement of a trustee subject to various limitations and conditions shall apply equally to trustees appointed under this section; and
(3) Provisions proscribing the trustor and trust beneficiaries and persons or entities related or subordinate to the trustor and any trust beneficiary from being eligible to serve as a trustee shall apply equally to proscribe all of those persons from serving as trustees appointed under this section.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, in accordance with § 3313A of this title, a trustee to whom powers have been exclusively allocated under subsection (a) of this section shall be a fiduciary only with respect to the powers so allocated, and a trustee excluded from exercising powers shall have no liability for, nor any duty to monitor, the actions of any trustee to whom any such powers, duties, and responsibilities are so allocated.
(d) Except as otherwise expressly provided by the terms of a governing instrument, this section shall be available to any trust that is administered in this State or otherwise governed by the laws of this State.
82 Del. Laws, c. 52, § 1.
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