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...As used in sections 5801.20 to 5801.24 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Applicable reporting period" means either of the following, as applicable: (a) The most recent four years, as of the date of preparation of a notice authorized under division (B) of section 5801.22 or division (B) of section 5801.23 of the Revised Code; (b) If the trust became irrevocable during such four-year period, the period from the date ...

...(A) A trustee may, but is not required to, use the process prescribed in sections 5801.22 and 5801.23 of the Revised Code, as applicable, when concluding the trustee's administration of an irrevocable trust. (B) Sections 5801.20 to 5801.24 of the Revised Code do not apply to a testamentary trust subject to the supervision of a probate court. (C) Except as otherwise provided in the Revised Code or other applicab...

...(A) When a trust is to terminate as a result of trust-terminating distributions and the trustee elects to use the provisions of this section, the trustee shall serve on the terminating distributions necessary parties the documents and information described in division (B) of this section. The trustee also may serve those documents and that information on other persons who the trustee reasonably believes may have an i...

...(A) When a trustee resigns or is removed from an irrevocable trust pursuant to the terms of the trust or otherwise and the departing trustee elects to use the provisions of this section, the departing trustee shall serve on the resignation or removal necessary parties the documents and information described in division (B) of this section. The trustee also may serve those documents and that information on other perso...

...(A)(1) Division (A)(2) of this section applies if both of the following apply: (a) A notice and trustee's reports under division (B) of section 5801.22 or division (B) of section 5801.23 of the Revised Code are served upon both of the following: (i) The personal representative for the estate of a deceased beneficiary of the noticing trust or the trustee of a subtrust that is a beneficiary of the noticing trust; ...

...A)(1) As used in the Revised Code, the "Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act" means sections 5809.01 to 5809.08, 5808.03, 5808.05, and 5808.06, division (A) of section 5808.02, and division (B) of section 5808.07 of the Revised Code, and those sections may be cited as the "Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act." (2) As used in the Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act, "trustee" means a trustee under any testamentary, inter vi...

...(A) A trustee shall invest and manage trust assets as a prudent investor would, by considering the purposes, terms, distribution requirements, and other circumstances of the trust. In satisfying this requirement, the trustee shall exercise reasonable care, skill, and caution. (B) A trustee shall make a reasonable effort to verify facts relevant to the investment and management of trust assets. (C) A trustee's inves...

...h the requirements and standards of the Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act. (B) A trustee shall diversify the investments of a trust unless the trustee reasonably determines that, because of special circumstances, the purposes of the trust are better served without diversifying.

...ithstanding any other provision of the Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act, unless otherwise provided by the terms of the trust, the duties of a trustee with respect to the acquisition, retention, or ownership of a life insurance policy as a trust asset do not include any of the following duties: (1) To determine whether the policy is or remains a proper investment; (2) To diversify the investment in the polic...

... the requirements and standards of the Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act.

...Compliance with the Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act shall be determined in light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of a trustee's decision or action and not by hindsight.

...(A) A trustee may delegate investment and management functions of a trust that a prudent trustee having comparable skills could properly delegate under the circumstances. A trustee that exercises its delegation authority under this division shall comply with the requirements of division (A) of section 5808.07 of the Revised Code. (B) In performing investment or management functions of a trust that are delegated to a...

...nvestment or strategy permitted by the Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act: "investments permissible by law for investment of trust funds"; "legal investments"; "authorized investments"; "using the judgment and care under the circumstances then prevailing that persons of prudence, discretion, and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation but in regard to the permanent d...

...(A) The Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act shall be applied and construed to effectuate the general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of these sections among the states enacting it. (B) The Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act applies to trusts existing on or created after March 22, 1999. As applied to trusts existing on March 22, 1999, the Ohio Uniform Prudent Investor Act governs only decis...

...tion, or profit-sharing contract, plan, system, account, or trust. (B) "Broker" means a person that is lawfully engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others. A "broker" includes a financial institution that effects such transactions and a person who is lawfully engaged in buying and selling securities for the person's own account, through a broker or otherwise, as a part ...

..._____________ (name of minor) under the Ohio Transfers to Minors Act ; " (2) If the subject of the gift or transfer is a security not in registered form, by delivering it to the donor or transferor, another person who is eighteen years of age or older, or a trust company, accompanied by a statement of a gift or transfer in the following form, in substance, signed by the donor or transferor and the person or trust c...

...(A) A gift or transfer made in a manner prescribed in sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code, is irrevocable and conveys to the minor indefeasibly vested legal title to the security, money, life or endowment insurance policy, annuity contract, benefit plan, real estate, tangible or intangible personal property, or other property given or, subject to the right of the owner of the policy, contract, or benefit ...

... ____________ (name of minor) under the Ohio Transfers to Minors Act," or shall maintain each security that is custodial property and in registered form in an account with a broker or in a financial institution in the name of the custodian, followed, in substance, by the words: "as custodian for _____________ (name of minor) under the Ohio Transfers to Minors Act." A security held in account with a broker or in a fin...

...(A) A custodian is entitled to reimbursement from the custodial property for reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of the custodian's duties. (B) A custodian may act without compensation for the custodian's services. (C) Unless the custodian is a donor or transferor, the custodian may receive from custodial property reasonable compensation for the custodian's services determined by one of the following st...

...An issuer, transfer agent, financial institution, broker, life insurance company, or other person acting on the instructions of or otherwise dealing with any person purporting to act as a donor or transferor or dealing with any person or trust company purporting to act as a custodian is not required to do any of the following: (A) Determine either of the following: (1) Whether the person or trust company designated...

..._____________ (name of minor) under the Ohio Transfers to Minors Act;" (3) Executing in the appropriate manner a deed, assignment, or similar instrument for all interest in real estate that is custodial property in the name of the successor custodian, followed, in substance, by the words: "as custodian for _________________________________ (name of minor) under the Ohio Transfers to Minors Act;" (4) Delivering to...

...(A) The minor, if the minor has attained the age of fourteen years, or the legal representative of the minor, a member of the minor's family who is eighteen years of age or older, or a donor or transferor or the donor's or transferor's legal representative may petition the court for an accounting by the custodian or the custodian's legal representative. A successor custodian may petition the court for an accounting b...

...elivery of property to minor) under the Ohio Transfers to Minors Act," shall be substituted in substance for the words "as custodian for __________________ (name of minor) under the Ohio Transfers to Minors Act." (C) The time for delivery to the minor of custodial property transferred under a will, trust instrument, or irrevocable exercise of a testamentary power of appointment may be delayed under this section onl...

...(A) Sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code shall be construed to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law of those states that enact similar provisions. (B) Sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code shall not be construed as providing an exclusive method for making gifts or transfers to minors. (C) Nothing in sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code shall affect gifts made unde...

...This chapter may be cited as the Ohio legacy trust act.