A violation by the trustee of any duty that the trustee owes the beneficiary is a breach of trust.
Cal. Prob. Code § 16400
Liability for Breach of Trust
Known as the Trust Law
The act spans §§ 15000 to 19403 (351 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 7 Cal. App. 4th 419 - Saks v. Damon Raike & Co. (1992)
Most recently applied in Banks v. N. Trust Corp. (July 2019)
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.