Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 11.98 - Trusts.
11.98.145 - Distribution upon termination.

RCW 11.98.145
Distribution upon termination.

(1) Upon termination or partial termination of a trust, the trustee may send, by personal service, certified mail with return receipt requested, or in an electronic transmission if there is a consent of the recipient to electronic transmission then in effect under the terms of RCW 11.96A.110, to the beneficiaries a proposed plan to distribute existing trust assets. The right of any beneficiary to object to the plan to distribute existing trust assets, including the right to object to nonpro rata distributions authorized under RCW 11.98.070(15), terminates if the beneficiary does not notify the trustee of an objection within thirty days after the proposal was sent but only if the proposal informed the beneficiary of the right to object and of the time allowed for objection.
(2) Upon the occurrence of an event terminating or partially terminating a trust, the trustee shall proceed expeditiously to distribute the trust property to the persons entitled to it, subject to the right of the trustee to retain a reasonable reserve for the payment of debts, expenses, and taxes.

[ 2011 c 327 § 27.]
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.