Sec. 1.3. (a) While a trust is revocable and the settlor has the capacity to revoke the trust:
(1) the rights of the beneficiaries are subject to the control of; and
(2) the duties of the trustee are owed exclusively to;
the settlor.
(b) A settlor is presumed to have capacity for the purposes of subsection (a) until the trustee receives from at least one (1) licensed physician written certification that the settlor lacks the capacity to revoke the trust.
(c) If a revocable trust has more than one (1) settlor, the duties of the trustee are owed to all of the settlors having capacity to revoke the trust.
(d) During the period the power may be exercised, the holder of a power of withdrawal has the rights of a settlor of a revocable trust under this section to the extent of the property subject to the power.
(e) If a trustee reasonably believes that a settlor of a revocable trust lacks capacity to revoke the trust, the trustee is authorized to provide information to the settlor's designated agent (even if the designated agent is one (1) of two (2) or more trustees) or to any beneficiary who, if the settlor were deceased, would be entitled to distributions from the trust.
(f) A person who becomes a successor trustee of a revocable trust upon the death, resignation, or incapacity of a trustee who was also a settlor is not liable for any act or failure to act by the settlor while the settlor was trustee.
(g) A successor trustee of a revocable trust who succeeds a trustee who was also a settlor of the trust does not have a duty to:
(1) investigate any act or failure to act by the predecessor trustee;
(2) review any accounting of the predecessor trustee; or
(3) take action on account of any breach of trust by the predecessor trustee.
As added by P.L.99-2013, SEC.9.
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