Tennessee § 45-3-511 - Accounts of administrators, executors, guardians, custodians, trustees, and other fiduciaries.

§ 45-3-511. Accounts of administrators, executors, guardians, custodians, trustees, and other fiduciaries.

Any association may accept accounts in the name of any administrator, executor, custodian, conservator, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary for a named beneficiary or beneficiaries. A fiduciary shall have power to vote as a member in a mutual association as if the membership were held absolutely, and shall have power to open and to make additions to, and to withdraw the account in whole or in part from, any association governed by this chapter. The withdrawal value of the account, and interest on the account, or other rights relating to the account may be paid or delivered, in whole or in part, to the fiduciary without regard to any notice to the contrary as long the fiduciary is living. The payment or delivery to the fiduciary to whom the payment or the delivery of right is made shall be a valid and sufficient release and discharge of an association for the payment or delivery so made. Whenever a person holding an account in a fiduciary capacity dies and no written or actual notice of the revocation or termination of the fiduciary relationship has been given to an association, and the association has no written or actual notice of any other disposition of the beneficial estate, either to a successor fiduciary or otherwise, the withdrawal value of the account, and interest on the account, or other rights relating to the account may, at the option of an association, be paid or delivered, in whole or in part, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries. Whenever an account is opened by any person, describing the person in opening the account as trustee for another and no other or further notice of the existence and terms of a legal and valid trust than the description has been given in writing and to the association, in the event of the death of the person so described as trustee, the withdrawal value of the account or any part of the account, together with the interest on the account, may be paid to the person for whom the account was thus described to have been opened. The payment or delivery to the beneficiary, beneficiaries, or designated person, or a receipt or acquittance signed by the beneficiary, beneficiaries, or designated person for payment or delivery shall be a valid and sufficient release and discharge of an association for the payment or delivery so made. No association paying the fiduciary, beneficiary, or designated person in accordance with this section shall be liable for any estate, inheritance, or succession taxes that may be due this state. Acts 1978, ch. 708, § 2.11; T.C.A., § 45-1411. Compiler's Notes. For repeal of the former section, see Compiler's Notes to § 45-3-501 .