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Every TrusteeClear guide is written from the statutes of the state its page serves — the Florida Statutes on the Florida pages, the Texas Property and Estates Codes on the Texas pages, the California Probate Code on the California pages, the Estates, Powers and Trusts Law and the Surrogate's Court Procedure Act on the New York pages, the Colorado Revised Statutes on the Colorado pages, the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes on the Pennsylvania pages, the Michigan Compiled Laws on the Michigan pages, the Illinois Compiled Statutes on the Illinois pages, the Arizona Revised Statutes on the Arizona pages, the Utah Code on the Utah pages, the Official Code of Georgia Annotated on the Georgia pages, the Ohio Revised Code on the Ohio pages, the General Laws of Massachusetts on the Massachusetts pages, the New Jersey Statutes on the New Jersey pages, the Code of Virginia on the Virginia pages — cites the section it explains, links the official text, is reviewed against the current statutes, and carries the date of that review. Guides say what the statute provides and leave the decision to the reader; they are general information, not legal advice, and a reported error is compared with the official text and fixed.
Dernière vérification par rapport aux Florida Statutes et mise à jour : 2026-09-09.
Where a guide starts
A guide starts with a question people ask — what a successor trustee must do after a death, how long a trustee has to distribute, whether a will avoids probate — and with the sections of that state's statutes that answer it. The writer reads the section in the official text on the state legislature's site — the Florida Legislature's, the Texas Legislature's, the California Legislature's, the New York State Senate's, the Colorado General Assembly's, the Pennsylvania General Assembly's, the Michigan Legislature's, the Illinois General Assembly's, the Arizona Legislature's, the Utah Legislature's, the Georgia General Assembly's, the Ohio Legislative Service Commission's, the General Court of Massachusetts's, the New Jersey Legislature's, the Virginia General Assembly's — not in a summary of it, and reads the sections around it, because a trust code answers most questions in two places: the section that names the duty and the section that defines the words.
The first paragraph of every guide is the answer, with its statute, in sixty words or fewer. A reader who stops there has the answer; a reader who continues gets the reasons, the sequence and the edges.
How a plain-language sentence is written
The rule is that a plain sentence must be true of the statute, not merely simpler than it. "The trustee sends the notice within 60 days" is plain and true of §736.0813; "the trustee sends the notice right away" is plainer and false. Where the statute's own words carry a meaning a paraphrase would lose — reasonably informed, expeditiously, adequately disclosed — the guide keeps the words and explains them. Where the statute gives no day-count, the guide says so rather than inventing one.
Guides speak as the statute speaks: the section provides, the trustee gives notice, the code lets the trustee hold a reserve. They do not tell a reader what to do about a particular trust. The words must, should and recommend are reserved for what the statute itself requires, and a guide never concludes anything about the reader's own instrument, which it has not seen.
Citation and linking
Every statutory statement cites its section in the form the state's statutes use — §736.0813(1)(a) in Florida, Prop. Code §113.151 in Texas, Prob. Code §16061.7 in California, EPTL 7-1.17 in New York, C.R.S. §15-5-813 in Colorado, 20 Pa.C.S. §7780.3 in Pennsylvania, MCL 700.7814 in Michigan, 760 ILCS 3/813.1 in Illinois, A.R.S. § 14-10813 in Arizona, Utah Code § 75B-2-811 in Utah, O.C.G.A. § 53-12-243 in Georgia, R.C. 5808.13 in Ohio, G.L. c. 203E, § 813 in Massachusetts, N.J.S.A. 3B:31-67 in New Jersey, Va. Code § 64.2-775 in Virginia — and every section cited in a table or a map links to the official text on that state's legislature site, so a reader can check the words. Federal tax points cite the form or the Internal Revenue Code section. Where a point rests on a court decision rather than a statute, the guide says so; where a point is practice rather than law — what a bank usually asks for, what most trustees do — the guide says that too, and does not dress practice as a requirement.
Review, dates, and what changes them
Each guide carries two dates: the day it first published, and the day its copy or metadata last changed. The second is set by hand in the same change that alters the page, never by a build or a request, so that the date a search engine or an answer engine reads is the date something actually changed. Guides that explain a section of the statutes are reviewed against the current statutes after each regular session of the state's legislature; the deadline table, the trust code map and the glossary carry the date of their last review on the page.
A change in the law re-dates the guide that explains it. A correction re-dates it too. A change to the site's design does not.
Translation
The site serves seven languages. Titles, summaries, chrome and short pages are translated by the team and checked for length and meaning; the long-form guides are English on every language's page, and each translated page says so and says that the statute summaries and the English remain the source of record. A translated summary is never allowed to promise something the English guide does not.
What the guides will not do
They will not give legal advice, review a reader's trust, say what a reader should decide, or arrange review by an attorney for a reader. They will not describe the product as making anyone compliant, protected or ready. They will not name a competitor. They will not carry an advertisement. Where a guide's subject reaches the point at which the general rules run out, it says that a licensed attorney in the reader's state, of the reader's own choosing, is the right next call, and it names the questions that belong there.
Corrections
A reported error is compared with the official text within days, and a guide that was wrong is corrected, re-dated, and — where the error could have misled a reader about a deadline or a duty — noted at the foot of the guide for a season. Reports come through the site's contact page; a report that names the section and the sentence is the fastest to act on.
Questions fréquentes
Are TrusteeClear's guides legal advice?
No. They are general information about the law of the state the page serves — Florida, Texas, California, New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Arizona, Utah, Georgia, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey or Virginia: what the statute provides, cited to the section and linked to the official text, with the decision left to the reader. Questions about a particular trust are for a licensed attorney in that state, of the reader's own choosing.
How does TrusteeClear keep the guides current?
Each guide is reviewed against its state's current statutes after each regular legislative session and carries the date its copy last changed, set by hand in the same change; the deadline table, the trust code map and the glossary show their last review date on the page.
Are the translated pages reviewed?
Titles, summaries and short pages are translated by the team and checked; the long-form guides are English on every language's page and say so. The statute summaries and the English remain the source of record.
How do I report an error in a guide?
Through the site's contact page, naming the guide, the section and the sentence. The report is compared with the official text, and a guide that was wrong is corrected and re-dated.
Information générale sur le droit de la Floride, pas un avis juridique.