TITLE 68

TRUSTS AND FIDUCIARIES

CHAPTER 5

UNIFORM PRUDENT INVESTOR ACT

68-501.  Prudent investor rule. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, a trustee who invests and manages trust assets owes a duty to the beneficiaries of the trust to comply with the prudent investor rule set forth in this act.

(2)  The prudent investor rule, a default rule, may be expanded, restricted, eliminated or otherwise altered by the provisions of a trust. A trustee is not liable to a beneficiary to the extent that the trustee acted in reasonable reliance on the provisions of the trust.

History:

[68-501, added 1997, ch. 14, sec. 2, p. 15.]