TRUST FOR CARE OF ANIMAL.
(a) In this section the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) ANIMAL TRUST. A trust or an interest in a trust created to provide for the care of one or more animals.
(2) PROTECTOR. A person appointed in an animal trust to enforce the trust on behalf of the animal or, if no such person is appointed in the trust, a person appointed by the court for that purpose.
(b) The decanting power may be exercised over an animal trust that has a protector to the extent the trust could be decanted under this chapter if each animal that benefits from the trust were an individual, if the protector consents in a signed record to the exercise of the power.
(c) A protector for an animal has the rights under this chapter of a qualified beneficiary.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if a first trust is an animal trust, in an exercise of the decanting power, the second trust must provide that trust property may be applied only to its intended purpose for the period the first trust benefitted the animal.
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.