Arkansas Code
Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Custodial Trust Act
§ 28-72-403. Custodial trustee for future payment or transfer

(a) A person having the right to designate the recipient of property payable or transferable upon a future event may create a custodial trust upon the occurrence of the future event by designating in writing the recipient, followed in substance by: “as custodial trustee for (name of beneficiary) under the Arkansas Custodial Trust Act, § 28-72-401 et seq.”
(b) Persons may be designated as substitute or successor custodial trustees to whom the property must be paid or transferred in the order named if the first designated custodial trustee is unable or unwilling to serve.
(c) A designation under this section may be made in a will, a trust, a deed, a multiple-party account, an insurance policy, an instrument exercising a power of appointment, or a writing designating a beneficiary of contractual rights. Otherwise, to be effective, the designation must be registered with or delivered to the fiduciary, payor, issuer, or obligor of the future right.

Structure Arkansas Code

Arkansas Code

Title 28 - Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships

Subtitle 5 - Fiduciary Relationships

Chapter 72 - Particular Trusts

Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Custodial Trust Act

§ 28-72-401. Definitions

§ 28-72-402. Custodial trust — General

§ 28-72-403. Custodial trustee for future payment or transfer

§ 28-72-404. Form and effect of receipt and acceptance by custodial trustee — Jurisdiction

§ 28-72-405. Transfer to custodial trustee by fiduciary or obligor — Facility of payment

§ 28-72-406. Multiple beneficiaries — Separate custodial trusts — Survivorship

§ 28-72-407. General duties of custodial trustee

§ 28-72-408. General powers of custodial trustee

§ 28-72-409. Use of custodial trust property

§ 28-72-410. Determination of incapacity — Effect

§ 28-72-411. Exemption of third person from liability

§ 28-72-412. Liability to third person

§ 28-72-413. Declination, resignation, incapacity, death, or removal of custodial trustee — Designation of successor custodial trustee

§ 28-72-414. Expenses, compensation, and bond of custodial trustee

§ 28-72-415. Reporting and accounting by custodial trustee — Determination of liability of custodial trustee

§ 28-72-416. Limitations of action against custodial trustee

§ 28-72-417. Distribution on termination

§ 28-72-418. Methods and forms for creating custodial trusts

§ 28-72-419. Applicable law

§ 28-72-420. Uniformity of application and construction

§ 28-72-421. Title

§ 28-72-422. Severability