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Okla. Stat. tit. 60, § 1604.2

Requirements for creation

Added by Laws 2025, c. 254, § 21, eff

A. A trust is created only if:

1. The settlor has capacity to create a trust;

2. The settlor indicates an intention to create the trust;

3. The trust has a definite beneficiary or is:

a. a charitable trust, or b. a trust for a noncharitable purpose, as provided in Section 27 of this act;

4. The trustee has duties to perform; and 5. The same person is not the sole trustee and sole beneficiary. B. A beneficiary is definite if the beneficiary can be ascertained now or in the future. C. A power in a trustee to select a beneficiary from an indefinite class is valid. If the power is not exercised within a reasonable time, the power fails and the property subject to the power passes to the persons who would have taken the property had the power not been conferred.

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