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...en designated by the donor, transferor, trustee, executor, or administrator pursuant to division (F) of section 5814.02 of the Revised Code or by the custodian pursuant to division (E) of section 5814.07 of the Revised Code, each registration, account, policy, contract, plan, or title in the name of the custodian set forth in this division shall include such designation of successor custodian or custodians. The custo...

...(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...

...ransferor 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 by the purported donor or transferor, or the person or trust company purporting to act as a custodian, has been duly designated; (2) Whether any purchase, sale, or transfer to or by, or any other ...

... is eighteen years of age or older or a trust company is eligible to become a successor custodian. A successor custodian has all the rights, powers, duties, and immunities of a custodian designated in a manner prescribed by sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code. (B) A custodian may resign and designate the custodian's successor by doing all of the following: (1) Executing an instrument of resignation th...

...(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...

...dial property transferred under a will, trust instrument, or irrevocable exercise of a testamentary power of appointment may be delayed under this section only if the governing will, trust, or exercise of the power of appointment provides in substance that the custodianship is to continue until the time the minor attains a specified age, which time shall not be later than the date the minor attains the age of twenty-...

...(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...

...Except when the intent of the settlor clearly is to the contrary, the following rules of construction shall apply in interpreting the terms "inheritance" and "bequest": (A) The term "inheritance," in addition to its meaning at common law or under any other section or sections of the Revised Code, includes any change of title to real property by reason of the death of the owner of that real property, regardless of wh...

...vised Code: (A) "Fiduciary" includes a trustee under any trust, expressed, implied, resulting, or constructive; an executor, administrator, public administrator, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, assignee for the benefit of creditors, partner, agent, officer of a public or private corporation, or public officer; or any other person acting in a fiduciary capacity for any pers...

...er need not see to the execution of any trust, or to the observance or performance of any obligation of a holder of record, a fiduciary, or a pledgee of the securities, and it need not inquire or inform itself concerning those matters. This section does not enlarge the capacity, right, or authority of any holder of record of the securities as against any person other than the issuer, nor prevent any court of compete...

...vised Code. (B) "Fiduciary" includes a trustee under any trust, expressed, implied, resulting, or constructive, an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, curator, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, assignee for the benefit of creditors, partner, agent, officer of a corporation, public or private, public officer, or any other person acting in a fiduciary capacity for any person, trust, or estate. (C) "Person"...

...A person who in good faith pays or transfers to a fiduciary any money or other property that the fiduciary as such is authorized to receive is not responsible for the proper application of the money or other property by the fiduciary. Any right or title acquired from the fiduciary in consideration of the payment or transfer is not invalid because of a misapplication by the fiduciary.

...If a deposit is made in a bank to the credit of a fiduciary as such, the bank may pay the amount of the deposit or any part thereof upon the check of the fiduciary, signed with the name in which the deposit is entered, without being liable to the principal, unless the bank pays the check with actual knowledge that the fiduciary is committing a breach of the obligation as fiduciary in drawing the check or with knowle...

...If a check is drawn upon the principal's account by a fiduciary who is empowered to do so, the bank may pay the check without being liable to the principal, unless the bank pays the check with actual knowledge that the fiduciary is committing a breach of the obligation as fiduciary in drawing the check or with knowledge of such facts that its action in paying the check amounts to bad faith. If such a check is payab...

... fiduciary otherwise makes a deposit of funds held by the fiduciary as fiduciary, the bank receiving the deposit is not bound to inquire whether the fiduciary is committing a breach of the obligation as fiduciary. The bank may pay the amount of the deposit or any part thereof upon the personal check of the fiduciary without being liable to the principal, unless the bank receives the deposit or pays the check with ac...

...k in the name of two or more persons as trustees and a check is drawn upon the trust account by any trustee authorized to do so by the other, neither the payee or other holder nor the bank is bound to inquire whether it is a breach of trust to authorize the trustee to draw checks upon the trust account and neither is liable unless the circumstances are such that the action of the payee or other holder or the bank amo...

...Sections 5815.04 to 5815.11 of the Revised Code shall be construed to effectuate their general purpose of making the law of this state uniform with the law of those states that enact similar legislation.

...ose rules of law and equity relating to trusts, agency, negotiable instruments, and banking apply.

...connotations under the law of property, trusts, or wills. The power includes but is not limited to powers which are special, general, limited, absolute, in gross, appendant, appurtenant, or collateral.

...Any power of appointment that is not subject to an express condition that it may be exercised only by a donee or holder of a greater age may be exercised by any donee or holder of the age of eighteen years or over.

...Any power of appointment may be released in whole or in part by the donee or holder of the power by an instrument in writing, signed and acknowledged in the manner prescribed for the execution of deeds. No such release is ineffective because it was given either for or without consideration, because it was signed and acknowledged before June 3, 1943, or because no delivery is made of a copy of the release as provided ...

...No fiduciary or other person having the possession or control of any property subject to a power of appointment, other than the donee or holder of such power, has notice of a release of the power until a copy of the release is delivered to the fiduciary or other person having possession or control. No purchaser or mortgagee of real property subject to a power of appointment has notice of a release of the powe...

...ed in this section, "fiduciary" means a trustee under an express trust or an executor or administrator of a decedent's estate.

...Whenever the executor of a will or the trustee of a testamentary or inter vivos trust is permitted or required to select assets in kind to satisfy a gift, devise, or bequest, whether outright or in trust, intended to qualify for the federal estate tax marital deduction prescribed by the United States "Internal Revenue Code of 1954," 68A Stat. 392, 26 U.S.C.A. 2056, or any comparable federal statute enacted after July...

... creates an inter vivos or testamentary trust shall not cause any forfeiture or postponement of any interest in property that satisfies both of the following: (a) It is granted to a surviving spouse of the testator or other settlor. (b) It qualifies for the federal estate tax marital deduction allowed by Subtitle B, Chapter 11, of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 26 U.S.C.A. 2056, as amended, the estate tax mar...