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Miss. Code Ann. § 91-8-1205

Fiduciary’s liability for action or inaction of trustee, trust advisor, and trust protector

Known as the Mississippi Uniform Trust Code

The act spans §§ 91–91 (104 sections).

Laws, 2014, ch. 421, § 102, eff from and after July 1, 2014.

An excluded fiduciary is not liable, either individually or as a fiduciary, for:

(1) Any loss resulting from compliance with a direction of a trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector, including, but not limited to, any loss from the trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector breaching fiduciary responsibilities or acting beyond the trustee’s, trust advisor’s, or trust protector’s scope of authority;

(2) Any loss resulting from any action or inaction of a trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector; or

(3) Any loss that results from the failure of a trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector to take any action proposed by the excluded fiduciary where the action requires the authorization of the trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector, if an excluded fiduciary who had a duty to propose the action timely sought but failed to obtain the authorization.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.