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  • (1) "Breach of trust" includes a violation by a trust director or trustee of a duty imposed on the director or trustee by the terms of the trust, this chapter, or the law of this state other than this chapter pertaining to trusts.
  • (2) "Directed trust" means a trust for which the terms of the trust grant a power of direction.
  • (3) "Directed trustee" means a trustee that is subject to a trust director's power of direction.
  • (4) "Person" means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality, or other legal entity.
  • (5)
    • (a) "Power of direction" means a power over a trust granted to a person by the terms of the trust to the extent the power is exercisable while the person is not serving as a trustee.
    • (b) "Power of direction" includes a power over the investment, management, or distribution of trust property or other matters of trust administration.
    • (c) "Power of direction" does not include the powers described in Subsection 75-12-105(2).
  • (6) "Settlor" means the same as that term is defined in Section 75-7-103.
  • (7) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
  • (8) "Terms of a trust" means:
    • (a) subject to Subsection (8)(b), the manifestation of the settlor's intent regarding a trust's provisions as:
      • (i) expressed in the trust instrument; or
      • (ii) established by other evidence that would be admissible in a judicial proceeding; or
    • (b) the trust's provisions as established, determined, or amended by:
      • (i) a trustee or trust director in accordance with applicable law;
      • (ii) a court order; or
      • (iii) a nonjudicial settlement agreement under Section 75-7-110.
  • (9) "Trust director" means a person that is granted a power of direction by the terms of a trust to the extent the power is exercisable while the person is not serving as a trustee, regardless of whether:
    • (a) the terms of the trust refer to the person as a trust director; or
    • (b) the person is a beneficiary or settlor of the trust.
  • (10) "Trustee" includes an original, additional, and successor trustee, and a cotrustee.




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