Court’s power to appoint trustee to preserve, manage, and control personal property of nontrust life estate or other particular estate notwithstanding terms of will, 46 A.L.R.2d 502.
Hostility between trustee and beneficiary as ground for removal, 63 A.L.R.2d 523.
Court’s power to appoint additional trustees over number specified in trust instrument, 59 A.L.R.3d 1129.
Propriety of sale of trust assets without consent despite trust provision requiring consent, 39 A.L.R.4th 158.
Liability of trustee for payments or conveyances under a trust subsequently held to be invalid, 77 A.L.R.4th 1177.
(a) The acceptance of a trust shall be necessary to constitute a person as trustee. Acceptance may be effected by acts as well as words. After acceptance, the trustee shall not decline the trusteeship.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this Code section, a person designated as trustee accepts the trusteeship:
(1) By substantially complying with a method of acceptance pro-
vided in the trust instrument; or
(2) If the trust instrument does not provide a method or the method provided in the trust instrument is not expressly made exclusive, by accepting delivery of the trust property, exercising powers or performing duties as trustee, or otherwise indicating
acceptance of the trusteeship.
(c) A person designated as trustee, without accepting the trusteeship, may act to preserve the trust property if, as soon as practicable, the person rejects or declines the trusteeship.