For Maryland Successor Trustees
You were named Trustee. Nobody told you what comes next.
Made your Trust or Will online — and no one ever said what happens after?
The moment the person who made the trust dies or can no longer serve, Maryland's statutory clocks start — the two notices, the trustee's reports. TrusteeClear organizes the trust, computes the statutory periods from the dates you enter, and keeps every step in one place, in your own language.
Maryland-specific software — not a law firm, not legal advice. TrusteeClear does not arrange attorney review.
Maryland-specific · Clear guidance in 7 languages · Statute-anchored · From a 3rd-generation South Florida firm (45+ years)
TrusteeClear serves trustees in these states: Florida, Texas, California, New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Arizona, Utah, Georgia, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland.
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The Maryland Trust Act, on a clock
The deadlines nobody told you about
When a Maryland trust becomes irrevocable — usually when the person who made it dies — the successor trustee has statutory duties with real clocks attached.
Est. & Trusts § 14.5-813(b)(1)(i) · 60 days
Tell the beneficiaries you've accepted
Within 60 days of accepting the trusteeship, the trustee notifies the qualified beneficiaries of the acceptance and of the trustee's name, address and telephone number.
Mapped to your timeline, with reminders before day 60.
Est. & Trusts § 14.5-813(b)(1)(ii) · 90 days
Notify the beneficiaries the trust is irrevocable
Within 90 days after the trustee acquires knowledge that the trust has become irrevocable — usually at the settlor's death — the qualified beneficiaries are told the trust exists, who the settlor was, and their rights to request a copy of the trust instrument and a trustee's report.
Prepared from your answers as a self-help form — you sign it and send it.
Est. & Trusts § 14.5-813(c) · On request, annually
Report to the beneficiaries
On a qualified beneficiary's request, annually and when the trust ends, the trustee sends that beneficiary a report of the trust's property, liabilities, receipts and disbursements — including the source and amount of the trustee's own compensation — and a listing of the assets with their market values where feasible.
The report's contents, built from your ledger as you go.
Trust made online? The duties are exactly the same.
Trusts created through online services or from templates carry the same Maryland Trust Act obligations as attorney-drafted ones — there's just no law office calling to tell you. If the drafting attorney has retired, moved on, or was never involved, the responsibility still sits with the trustee.
These duties belong to the trustee personally. Missing them can expose the trustee to challenges from beneficiaries and complicate the administration — the point of a clear process is that nothing is missed.
The product, not the promise
Watch one matter move — three moments, on the record.
Week one — the role, mapped
Accept the trusteeship — Est. & Trusts § 14.5-701
DoneNotify the qualified beneficiaries — Est. & Trusts § 14.5-813(b)(1)(i) · due in 60 days
DraftedPrepare the certification of trust from your answers — Est. & Trusts § 14.5-910
You send itOpen the trustee's report — Est. & Trusts § 14.5-813(c)
ScheduledDrafted from your answers — Est. & Trusts § 14.5-813(b)(1)(i) acceptance notice
The statute sets what must be said. Your answers fill it in. The software never composes law.
The append-only record — who did what, when
14:02 — Existence notice draft approved — Trustee
14:31 — Beneficiary notice added to records
15:10 — Reporting period opened — system
In checkable numbers
- languages, with the whole journey guided in your own
- 7
- statutory clocks mapped to your timelineEst. & Trusts § 14.5-813(b)(1)(i) · § 14.5-813(b)(1)(ii) · § 14.5-813(c)
- 2
- Maryland instruments produced, each cited to its statute
- 3
- one-time founding membership — for the life of the matter
- $199
Counts are derived at render from the shipped registries — they cannot drift from the product.
From named to guided, in three steps
How TrusteeClear guides you
1
Upload the trust
AI organizes what the document says with source references for you to check and confirm.
2
See every duty and date
Your Maryland duties are mapped to a clear timeline — the two notices, the trustee's report — with reminders before anything comes due.
3
Take each step, guided
Clear information for every step, a documented record as you go, and everything ready to bring to a licensed Maryland attorney of your choosing whenever a legal judgment is needed.
What we produce
Real Maryland instruments — not templates with blanks.
Acceptance & Existence Notices
Est. & Trusts § 14.5-813(b)(1)(i)
Trustee's Report
Est. & Trusts § 14.5-813(b)(1)(ii)
Certification of Trust
Est. & Trusts § 14.5-910
Founding member — first 10 Trusts
$199 · lifetime membership for your trust
One payment. The role check is free; the founding membership covers your trust's guided administration — duties, deadlines, documents, and record — for the life of the matter.
- Guided duties & first steps
- Statutory deadline tracking
- Trustee's reports & beneficiary notices
- Certification of trust & document vault
- Everything ready for your own attorney
TrusteeClear is software, not a law firm, and does not give legal advice. It does not arrange attorney review. A licensed Maryland attorney of your choosing can read your record at any time.
Your attorney, your choice
AI organizes. You decide. Your attorney, if you have one, gets a complete record.
When a step calls for legal judgment, the platform says so and points you to a licensed Maryland attorney of your choosing. TrusteeClear does not arrange attorney review. Nothing auto-files, ever.
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Security & isolation, not an afterthought
Built to be trusted with a family's business.
Tenant isolation
Every firm and family is isolated at the database with row-level security — not just in app code.
Encryption
Encrypted in transit and at rest; secrets are server-only and never exposed to the browser.
Provenance trail
An append-only record of what was generated, cited, and reviewed.
Your attorney, your choice
TrusteeClear does not provide attorney review to individual customers. Your record is organized so a licensed Maryland attorney of your choosing can read it at any time.
Built on real fiduciary experience
Created in consultation with a third-generation South Florida Estate-Planning firm — 45+ years guiding families through Trust and successor-trustee administration.
That hard-won judgment is built into every step: the deadlines that actually matter, the clear step-by-step guidance, and exactly when a Maryland attorney should weigh in. The result is a clearer, calmer path through a role most people take on only once — for the clients you served yesterday and the ones you'll serve tomorrow.
Start with the free role check.
Answer a few questions and see exactly what your Maryland trustee role requires — before you pay anything, before anything is filed.