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a trustee shall be done in the same manner as an advertisement of a grant of
letters and in the jurisdiction of the deceased settlor’s domicile. The
advertisement shall include the fact of the trust’s existence and the trustee’s
name and address. New paragraph (3) provides that the personal
representative of the settlor of a revocable trust shall send the trustee copies of
the proof of publication of the advertisement of the grant of letters. 42
§ 7765. Subsections (a), (b) and (c) are repealed in favor of a new subsection (a.1),
which provides that a trustee may resign with court approval, without court
approval if authorized to resign by the trust instrument, or pursuant to a
nonjudicial settlement agreement. New subsection (a.1) eliminates the
distinction between corporate and individual trustees regarding resignation. 43
§ 7780.3. Subsection (k.1) is new and permits a current beneficiary of a trust who has
capacity to nominate another person to receive, on behalf of the current
beneficiary, the required notice. This subsection specifies the conditions by
which the trustee satisfies his or her duty to give the required notice. 44
§ 7792. This section is amended to provide that § 3532(c), which concerns receipts,
releases and refunding agreements, applies to a trustee. 45
§§ 7901 - 7906. These new sections, which comprise new Chapter 79, codify the
Charitable Instruments Act of 1971 (10 P.S. §§ 201-206). 46
§ 8113. Subsection (f) is amended to change the reference from the Charitable
Instruments Act of 1971 to 20 Pa.C.S. Chapter 79. 47
42 Infra pp. 24-25.
43 Infra pp. 25-26.
44 Infra pp. 26-27.
45 Infra pp. 27-28.
46 Infra pp. 29-32.
47 Infra p. 69.
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