Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 11.98 - Trusts.
11.98.013 - Trust creation—Allowable purposes.

RCW 11.98.013
Trust creation—Allowable purposes.

A trust may be created only to the extent its purposes are lawful, not contrary to public policy, and possible to achieve.

[ 2011 c 327 § 18.]
NOTES:

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

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.