Uniform Trust Code, Trusts, Creditors

Parsing the Uniform Trust Code in Isolation Without Regard to the Uniform Probate Code and the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act...

Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - Suffolk University... on 3/25/2025

Intro. The Uniform Trust Code (UTC) is a mere aggregation of tweaks to the corner of equity jurisprudence that long ago gave birth to and currently stewards the trust relationship, hereinafter “the background trust law.”...more

Equity’s maxims have many jurisprudential functions, one critical function being to sinew the equitable principles that regulate...

Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - Suffolk University... on 9/23/2024

Equity’s maxims have many jurisprudential functions, one critical function being to sinew the equitable principles that regulate the law of trusts. A court that is saddled with sorting out the rights, duties and obligations...more

Whether an equitable power of appointment incident to a trust relationship is “in gross” or “collateral”: The practical...

Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - Suffolk University... on 8/20/2024

Section 17.3, comment f, of the Restatement (Third) of Property (Wills and Other Donative Transfers) explains the difference between a collateral power of appointment and a power of appointment in gross: “In traditional...more

Creating a nonvoidable domestic asset protection trust (DAPT) that has multijurisdictional contacts: The state and federal...

Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - Suffolk University... on 6/3/2024

Creating a domestic asset protection trust (DAPT) that both has multijurisdictional contacts and is nonvoidable in whole or in part is easier said than done. There are the state conflict-of-laws issues, a few of which I...more

Uniform Trust Code › Trusts › Creditors

Parsing the Uniform Trust Code in Isolation Without Regard to the Uniform Probate Code and the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act...

Equity’s maxims have many jurisprudential functions, one critical function being to sinew the equitable principles that regulate...

Whether an equitable power of appointment incident to a trust relationship is “in gross” or “collateral”: The practical...

Creating a nonvoidable domestic asset protection trust (DAPT) that has multijurisdictional contacts: The state and federal...

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