Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 165 - Trustees’ Accounting (Uniform Act)
NRS 165.147 - Requirement to provide copy of trust instrument to beneficiary entitled to receive account.


1. Upon demand by a beneficiary pursuant to NRS 165.141 who is entitled to receive an account pursuant to the terms of NRS 165.1201 to 165.148, inclusive, a trustee shall provide a copy of the trust instrument to that beneficiary except as expressly provided otherwise in the trust instrument.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 or any provision to the contrary in the trust instrument, the court may direct the trustee to provide a beneficiary who is entitled to receive an account pursuant to the terms of NRS 165.1201 to 165.148, inclusive, a copy of the trust instrument, or such portions as the court deems to be pertinent to the determination of the adequacy of the trustee’s account and to the enforcement of the beneficiary’s rights under the trust.
3. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 165.145 or by order of the court for good cause shown, the trustee must not be compelled to provide a copy of the trust instrument to a person who is not a beneficiary of the trust or a person who is not entitled to an account of the trust pursuant to the provisions of NRS 165.1201 to 165.148, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 2011, 1476; A 2015, 3566)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 165 - Trustees’ Accounting (Uniform Act)

NRS 165.010 - Short title.

NRS 165.020 - Definitions; applicability of chapter.

NRS 165.030 - Request for list of assets of trust estate.

NRS 165.1201 - Applicability to testamentary trusts; general duties of trustee.

NRS 165.1204 - Applicability to nontestamentary trusts; general duties of trustee.

NRS 165.1207 - Requirements for satisfying duty to account; persons entitled to receive account.

NRS 165.121 - Waiver of right to receive account.

NRS 165.1214 - Delivery of account; frequency; when account deemed approved and final; payment of cost of preparation.

NRS 165.135 - Form and contents of account.

NRS 165.138 - Written demand for account by beneficiary: General duties of trustee; power to provide account or information without demand.

NRS 165.141 - Written demand for account by beneficiary: Acceptance or rejection of demand by trustee; limitations on right to demand account.

NRS 165.143 - Petition to review trustee’s rejection of written demand for account; time to file; notice; hearing.

NRS 165.145 - Providing confidential account; review of confidential account; order granting relief to beneficiary.

NRS 165.147 - Requirement to provide copy of trust instrument to beneficiary entitled to receive account.

NRS 165.148 - Personal liability of trustee for failing to provide account; exceptions.

NRS 165.149 - Limitations on duties and liability of person with power of appointment.

NRS 165.150 - Duties of clerks and courts.

NRS 165.170 - Power of beneficiary.

NRS 165.180 - Accountability of trustees at other times.

NRS 165.190 - Enforcement.

NRS 165.200 - Penalties for violation of chapter.

NRS 165.210 - Form of inventory and accounts; compensation of attorney for intermediate and final accounts.

NRS 165.220 - Oaths.

NRS 165.230 - Charitable trusts.

NRS 165.240 - Uniformity of interpretation.