TITLE 15

UNIFORM PROBATE CODE

CHAPTER 7

TRUST ADMINISTRATION

PART 3.

DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF TRUSTEES

15-7-306.  Personal liability of trustee to third parties. (a) Unless otherwise provided in the contract, a trustee is not personally liable on contracts properly entered into in his fiduciary capacity in the course of administration of the trust estate unless he fails to reveal his representative capacity and identify the trust estate in the contract.

(b)  A trustee is personally liable for obligations arising from ownership or control of property of the trust estate or for torts committed in the course of administration of the trust estate only if he is personally at fault.

(c)  Claims based on contracts entered into by a trustee in his fiduciary capacity, on obligations arising from ownership or control of the trust estate, or on torts committed in the course of trust administration may be asserted against the trust estate by proceeding against the trustee in his fiduciary capacity, whether or not the trustee is personally liable therefor.

(d)  The question of liability as between the trust estate and the trustee individually may be determined in a proceeding for accounting, surcharge or indemnification or other appropriate proceeding.

History:

[I.C., sec. 15-7-306, as added by 1971, ch. 111, sec. 1, p. 233.]