Role of court in administration of trust
Known as the Arkansas Trust Code
The act spans §§ 28–28 (103 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Richard G. Gawenis v. Zelda Walls Living Trust (2022)
Most recently applied in Richard G. Gawenis v. Zelda Walls Living Trust (August 2022)
Acts 2005, No. 1031, § 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A court may intervene in the administration of a trust to the extent its jurisdiction is invoked by an interested person or as provided by law.
(2) A trust is not subject to continuing judicial supervision unless ordered by the court.
(3) A judicial proceeding involving a trust may relate to any matter involving the trust's administration, including a request for instructions and an action to declare rights.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.