Tennessee § 35-15-812 - Collecting trust property.

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§ 35-15-812. Collecting trust property.

A trustee shall take reasonable steps to compel a former trustee or other person to deliver trust property to the trustee, and to redress a breach of trust known to the trustee to have been committed by a former trustee. No successor trustee appointed after the examination of the accounts of a trustee or the waiver of the examination by the beneficiaries shall be responsible for the acts and omissions of the prior trustee. Acts 2004, ch. 537, § 70.

Source: official Tennessee text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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Section 35-15-812 ("Collecting trust property.") is part of the Tennessee Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Tennessee. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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