Current through the 2023 Regular Session
Section 72-38-402 - Requirements for creation(1) A trust is created only if:(a) the settlor has capacity to create a trust;(b) the settlor indicates an intention to create the trust;(c) the trust has a definite beneficiary or is:(ii) a trust for the care of an animal, as provided in 72-38-408; or(iii) a trust for a noncharitable purpose, as provided in 72-38-409;(d) the trustee has duties to perform; and(e) the same person is not the sole trustee and sole beneficiary.(2) A beneficiary is definite if the beneficiary can be ascertained now or in the future, subject to any applicable rule against perpetuities.(3) A power in a trustee to select a beneficiary from an indefinite class is valid. If the power is not exercised within a reasonable time, the power fails and the property subject to the power passes to the persons who would have taken the property had the power not been conferred.(4) A conservation easement created or conveyed under Title 76, chapter 6, does not create a charitable trust unless the settlor expresses a clear intention in the conservation easement instrument to create or convey the conservation easement as a charitable trust.Added by Laws 2013, Ch. 264, Sec. 51, eff. 10/1/2013.