PROTECTION OF CHARITABLE INTEREST.
(a) In this section the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) DETERMINABLE CHARITABLE INTEREST. A charitable interest that is a right to a mandatory distribution currently, periodically, on the occurrence of a specified event, or after the passage of a specified time, and which is unconditional or will be held solely for charitable purposes.
(2) UNCONDITIONAL. Not subject to the occurrence of a specified event that is not certain to occur, other than a requirement in a trust instrument that a charitable organization be in existence or qualify under a particular provision of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, on the date of the distribution, if the charitable organization meets the requirement on the date of determination.
(b) If a first trust contains a determinable charitable interest that is not entirely held by or for the benefit of one or more identified and existing charitable organizations, the Attorney General has the rights of a qualified beneficiary and may represent and bind the charitable interest.
(c) If a first trust contains a charitable interest, the second trust or trusts may not:
(1) diminish the charitable interest;
(2) diminish the interest of an identified charitable organization that holds the charitable interest;
(3) alter any charitable purpose stated in the first-trust instrument; or
(4) alter any condition or restriction related to the charitable interest.
(d) If there are two or more second trusts, the second trusts shall be treated as one trust for purposes of determining whether the exercise of the decanting power diminishes the charitable interest or diminishes the interest of an identified charitable organization for purposes of subsection (c).
(e) If a first trust contains a determinable charitable interest that is not entirely held by or for the benefit of one or more identified and existing charitable organizations, the second trust or trusts that include a charitable interest pursuant to subsection (c) must be administered under the law of this state unless:
(1) the Attorney General, after receiving notice under Section 19-3D-7, fails to object in a signed record delivered to the authorized fiduciary within the notice period;
(2) the Attorney General consents in a signed record to the second trust or trusts being administered under the law of another jurisdiction; or
(3) the court approves the exercise of the decanting power.
(f) This chapter does not limit the powers and duties of the Attorney General under laws of this state other than this chapter.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 19 - Fiduciaries and Trusts.
Chapter 3D - Alabama Uniform Trust Decanting Act.
Section 19-3D-1 - Short Title.
Section 19-3D-2 - Definitions.
Section 19-3D-4 - Fiduciary Duty.
Section 19-3D-5 - Application; Governing Law.
Section 19-3D-6 - Reasonable Reliance.
Section 19-3D-7 - Notice; Exercise of Decanting Power.
Section 19-3D-8 - Representation.
Section 19-3D-9 - Court Involvement.
Section 19-3D-10 - Formalities.
Section 19-3D-11 - Decanting Power Under Expanded Distributive Dicretion.
Section 19-3D-12 - Decanting Power Under Limited Distributive Discretion.
Section 19-3D-13 - Trust for Beneficiary With Disability.
Section 19-3D-14 - Protection of Charitable Interest.
Section 19-3D-15 - Trust Limitation on Decanting.
Section 19-3D-16 - Change in Compensation.
Section 19-3D-17 - Relief From Liability and Indemnification.
Section 19-3D-18 - Removal or Replacement of Authorized Fiduciary.
Section 19-3D-19 - Tax-Related Limitations.
Section 19-3D-20 - Duration of Second Trust.
Section 19-3D-21 - Need to Distribute Not Required.
Section 19-3D-22 - Saving Provision.
Section 19-3D-23 - Trust for Care of Animal.
Section 19-3D-24 - Terms of Second Trust.
Section 19-3D-26 - Later-Discovered Property.
Section 19-3D-27 - Obligations.
Section 19-3D-28 - Uniformity of Application and Construction.
Section 19-3D-29 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.