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Disputes · 7 min de lectura
Impartiality
Where a trust has two or more beneficiaries, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-8-803 provides that the trustee acts impartially in investing, managing and distributing the trust property, giving due regard to the beneficiaries' respective interests.
Settling by agreement
The interested persons — those whose consent a court-approved settlement would need — may enter into a binding nonjudicial settlement agreement on five listed matters: approving a trustee's report or accounting; directing or empowering the trustee; a trustee's resignation, appointment or compensation; moving the principal place of administration; and liability for those actions (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-1-111). Mediation, arbitration and other dispute resolution are among the trustee's powers (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-8-816(23)).
The clerk of superior court
The clerks of superior court have original jurisdiction over proceedings concerning the internal affairs of trusts — appointing and removing trustees, reviewing fees, settling accounts and determining questions of administration — with the construction questions movable to the superior court (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-2-203). A contested proceeding is docketed as an estate matter, with a summons to answer within 20 days (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-2-205(a)).
Removal and remedies
The court may remove a trustee for a serious breach, a lack of cooperation among co-trustees that substantially impairs the administration, unfitness, unwillingness or persistent failure to administer effectively, or a substantial change of circumstances where removal serves all the beneficiaries and a suitable successor is available (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-7-706). To remedy a breach the court may, among other things, compel performance, order an account, appoint a special fiduciary or reduce compensation (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-10-1001).
Las leyes, textualmente
Nonjudicial settlement agreements
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-1-111 ↗Explicación clara y sencilla; el texto literal del estatuto aún no está atestiguado en nuestra biblioteca. Consulte el estatuto oficial en el enlace de arriba.
Subject matter jurisdiction (the clerk of superior court)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-2-203 ↗Explicación clara y sencilla; el texto literal del estatuto aún no está atestiguado en nuestra biblioteca. Consulte el estatuto oficial en el enlace de arriba.
Removal of trustee
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-7-706 ↗Explicación clara y sencilla; el texto literal del estatuto aún no está atestiguado en nuestra biblioteca. Consulte el estatuto oficial en el enlace de arriba.
Impartiality
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-8-803 ↗Explicación clara y sencilla; el texto literal del estatuto aún no está atestiguado en nuestra biblioteca. Consulte el estatuto oficial en el enlace de arriba.
Preguntas frecuentes
Who decides a North Carolina trust dispute?
The clerk of superior court, in most matters of a trust's internal affairs (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-2-203(a)); the superior court in an action for damages, by or against creditors, or to modify or terminate a trust (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-2-203(f)).
Can North Carolina beneficiaries settle without court?
Yes, on the five matters N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-1-111 lists, by a binding nonjudicial settlement agreement among the interested persons, valid to the extent it does not violate a material purpose of the trust.
Can North Carolina beneficiaries remove a trustee?
Not by themselves; the settlor, a co-trustee or a beneficiary of an irrevocable trust may ask the court, which may remove a trustee on the grounds N.C. Gen. Stat. § 36C-7-706(b) lists.
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