Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 11.98 - Trusts.
11.98.009 - Application of chapter.

RCW 11.98.009
Application of chapter.

Except as provided in this section, this chapter applies to express trusts executed by the trustor after June 10, 1959, and does not apply to resulting trusts, constructive trusts, business trusts where certificates of beneficial interest are issued to the beneficiary, investment trusts, voting trusts, trusts in the nature of mortgages or pledges, liquidation trusts, or trusts for the sole purpose of paying dividends, interest, interest coupons, salaries, wages, pensions or profits, trusts created in deposits in any financial institution pursuant to *chapter 30.22 RCW, unless any such trust which is created in writing incorporates this chapter in whole or in part.

[ 2011 c 327 § 14; 1985 c 30 § 40. Prior: 1984 c 149 § 67; 1983 c 3 § 49; 1959 c 124 § 1. Formerly RCW 30.99.010.]
NOTES:

*Reviser's note: Chapter 30.22 RCW was recodified as chapter 30A.22 RCW pursuant to 2014 c 37 § 4, effective January 5, 2015.


Application—Effective date—2011 c 327: See notes following RCW 11.103.020.


Short title—Application—Purpose—Severability—1985 c 30: See RCW 11.02.900 through 11.02.903.


Severability—Effective dates—1984 c 149: See notes following RCW 11.02.005.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 11 - Probate and Trust Law

Chapter 11.98 - Trusts.

11.98.002 - Definitions.

11.98.005 - Trust situs and governing law.

11.98.008 - Trust creation—Methods.

11.98.009 - Application of chapter.

11.98.011 - Trust creation—Requirements.

11.98.012 - Trust creation—Other jurisdictions.

11.98.013 - Trust creation—Allowable purposes.

11.98.014 - Trust creation—Oral trusts.

11.98.015 - Noncharitable trusts without ascertainable beneficiaries.

11.98.016 - Exercise of powers by co-trustees.

11.98.017 - Trusteeship—Accepting and declining—Powers without acceptance.

11.98.019 - Relinquishment of powers by trustee.

11.98.029 - Resignation of trustee.

11.98.039 - Nonjudicial change of trustee—Judicial appointment or change of trustee—Liability and duties of successor fiduciary.

11.98.041 - Change of trustee—Discharge of outgoing trustee, when.

11.98.045 - Criteria for transfer of trust assets or administration.

11.98.051 - Nonjudicial transfer of trust assets or administration—Notice—Consent required.

11.98.055 - Judicial transfer of situs of trusts.

11.98.060 - Power of successor trustee.

11.98.065 - Change in form of corporate trustee.

11.98.070 - Power of trustee.

11.98.071 - Trustee's delegation of duties.

11.98.072 - Trustee—Notification requirements.

11.98.075 - Certification of trust.

11.98.078 - Trustee duty of loyalty.

11.98.080 - Consolidation of trusts.

11.98.085 - Trustee—Breach of trust—Damages.

11.98.100 - Nonliability for action or inaction based on lack of knowledge of events.

11.98.105 - Nonliability of third persons without knowledge of breach.

11.98.107 - Trustee exculpation.

11.98.108 - Nonliability of trustee—Beneficiary's consent, release, or ratification.

11.98.110 - Contract and tort liability.

11.98.130 - Rule against perpetuities.

11.98.140 - Distribution and vesting of assets.

11.98.145 - Distribution upon termination.

11.98.150 - Distribution of assets after one hundred fifty-year period.

11.98.160 - Effective date of irrevocable inter vivos trust—Effective date of revocable inter vivos or testamentary trust.

11.98.170 - Designation of trustee as beneficiary of life insurance policy or retirement plan—Determination of proper recipient of proceeds—Definitions—Beneficiary designations executed before January 1, 1985, not invalidated.

11.98.200 - Beneficiary trustee—Limitations on power.

11.98.210 - Beneficiary trustee—Disregard of provision conferring absolute or similar power—Power of removal.

11.98.220 - Beneficiary trustee—Inferences of law—Judicial review.

11.98.230 - Beneficiary trustee—Income under marital deduction—Spousal power of appointment.

11.98.240 - Beneficiary trustee—Applicability—Exceptions—Election of exception—Cause of action.

11.98.900 - Application of RCW 11.98.130 through 11.98.160—RCW 11.68.090 prevails.

11.98.920 - Short title.

11.98.930 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.