In a Sept. 11, 2023 JDSUPRA posting I questioned the doctrinal and practical utility of partial legislative codifications of equity’s principles-based jurisprudence, such as the UTC, the very ...

Many of my prior JDSUPRA postings caution that codification of the law of trusts, such as the Uniform Trust Code (UTC), are only partial codifications. See the catalogue of my prior postings below.

The Uniform Trust Code (UTC) became effective in New Jersey on July 17, 2016. The UTC will apply to existing trusts as well as to new trusts. The UTC offers flexibility, efficiency in administration ...

The representation provisions of the Uniform Trust Code (UTC), 1 contained in Article 3, are among its most consequential and its most complicated in application. They comprise a harmonious statutory ...