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Cal. Prob. Code § 18100

Protection of Third Persons

Known as the Trust Law

The act spans §§ 15000–19403 (351 sections).

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 7 Cal. App. 4th 1110 - Adler v. Manor Healthcare Corp. (1992)

Most recently applied in Corrie v. Soloway (May 2013)

Enacted by Stats. 1990, Ch. 79.

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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.

With respect to a third person dealing with a trustee or assisting a trustee in the conduct of a transaction, if the third person acts in good faith and for a valuable consideration and without actual knowledge that the trustee is exceeding the trustee’s powers or improperly exercising them:

(a) The third person is not bound to inquire whether the trustee has power to act or is properly exercising a power and may assume without inquiry the existence of a trust power and its proper exercise.

(b) The third person is fully protected in dealing with or assisting the trustee just as if the trustee has and is properly exercising the power the trustee purports to exercise.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.