On acceptance of the trust, the trustee has a duty to administer the trust according to the trust instrument and, except to the extent the trust instrument provides otherwise, according to this division.
Cal. Prob. Code § 16000
Trustee’s Duties in General
Known as the Trust Law
The act spans §§ 15000–19403 (351 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 7 Cal. App. 4th 419 - Saks v. Damon Raike & Co. (1992)
Most recently applied in Cumming v. Nipping (April 2021)
Enacted by Stats. 1990, Ch. 79.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.