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NH Rev Stat § 563-C:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-C - Uniform Transfer on Death|Section 563-C:9 - Protection of Registering Entity.

    563-C:9 Protection of Registering Entity. –||I. A registering entity is not required to offer or to accept a request for security registration in beneficiary form. If a registration in beneficiary form is offered by a registering entity, the owner requesting registration in beneficiary form assents to the protections given to the registering entity by this chapter.||II. By accepting a request for registration of a security in beneficiary form, the registering entity agrees that the registration will be implemented on death of the deceased owner as provided in this chapter.||III. A registering entity is discharged from all claims to a security by the estate, creditors, heirs, or devisees of a deceased owner if it registers a transfer of the security in accordance with RSA 563-C:8 and does so in good faith reliance:||(a) On the registration;||(b) On this chapter; and||(c) On information provided to it by affidavit of the personal representative of the deceased owner, or by the surviving beneficiary or by the surviving beneficiary's representatives, or other information available to the registering entity.||IV. The protections of this chapter do not extend to a registration or payment made after a registering entity has received written notice from any claimant to any interest in the security objecting to implementation of a registration in beneficiary form. No other notice or other information available to the registering entity affects its right to protection under this chapter. The protection provided by this chapter to the registering entity of a security does not affect the rights of beneficiaries in disputes between themselves and other claimants to ownership of the security transferred or its value or proceeds.|||Source. 1997, 231:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 563-C:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-C - Uniform Transfer on Death|Section 563-C:10 - Nontestamentary Transfer on Death.

    563-C:10 Nontestamentary Transfer on Death. –||I. A transfer on death resulting from a registration in beneficiary form is effective by reason of the contract regarding the registration between the owner and the registering entity and this chapter and is not testamentary.||II. This chapter does not limit the rights of creditors of security owners against beneficiaries and other transferees under other laws of this state.|||Source. 1997, 231:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 563-C:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-C - Uniform Transfer on Death|Section 563-C:11 - Terms, Conditions, and Forms for Registration.

    563-C:11 Terms, Conditions, and Forms for Registration. –||I. A registering entity offering to accept registrations in beneficiary form may establish the terms and conditions under which it will receive requests (i) for registrations in beneficiary form, and (ii) for implementation of registrations in beneficiary form, including requests for cancellation of previously registered TOD beneficiary designations and requests for reregistration to effect a change of beneficiary. The terms and conditions so established may provide for proving death, avoiding or resolving any problems concerning fractional shares, designating primary and contingent beneficiaries, and substituting a named beneficiary's descendants to take in the place of the named beneficiary in the event of the beneficiary's death. Substitution may be indicated by appending to the name of the primary beneficiary the letters LDPS, standing for "lineal descendants per stirpes". This designation substitutes a deceased beneficiary's descendants who survive the owner for a beneficiary who fails to so survive, the descendants to be identified and to share in accordance with the law of the beneficiary's domicile at the owner's death governing inheritance by descendants of an intestate. Other forms of identifying beneficiaries who are to take on one or more contingencies, and rules for providing proofs and assurances needed to satisfy reasonable concerns by registering entities regarding conditions and identities relevant to accurate implementation of registrations in beneficiary form, may be contained in a registering entity's terms and conditions.||II. The following are illustrations of registrations in beneficiary form which a registering entity may authorize:||(a) Sole owner-sole beneficiary: John S Brown TOD (or POD) John S Brown Jr.||(b) Multiple owner-sole beneficiary: John S Brown Mary B Brown JT TEN TOD John S Brown Jr.||(c) Multiple owners-primary and secondary (substituted) beneficiaries: John S Brown Mary B Brown JT TEN TOD John S Brown Jr SUB BENE Peter Q Brown; or John S Brown Mary B Brown JT TEN TOD John S Brown Jr LDPS.|||Source. 1997, 231:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 563-C:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-C - Uniform Transfer on Death|Section 563-C:12 - Application of Chapter.

    563-C:12 Application of Chapter. –||This chapter applies to registrations of securities in beneficiary form made before or after January 1, 1998, by decedents dying on or after January 1, 1998.|||Source. 1997, 231:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:1 - Bonds.

    564:1 Bonds. –||I. Every trustee to whom any estate, real or personal, is devised in trust for any person shall give bond to the judge of probate, with sufficient sureties, or without sureties in estates of five thousand dollars or less where the judge finds it in the interest of the estate, in such sum as the judge may order, except as provided in RSA 564:2, conditioned:||(a) That the trustee will make and file in the probate office a true inventory of the real estate, goods, chattels, rights and credits so devised, at such time as the judge shall order.||(b) That the trustee will annually render an account to the judge of the annual income and profit thereof, unless excused by the judge of probate as provided by law.||(c) That at the expiration of the trust the trustee will adjust and settle his or her account with the judge, and pay and deliver over all balances, money, and property with which the trustee has been intrusted.||(d) That the trustee will faithfully execute the trust according to the true intent of the devisor.||II. Except as provided in RSA 564:19, IV, this section shall not apply with respect to any trust exempted from the accounting requirements under RSA 564:19, II.|||Source. RS 168:1. CS 178:1. GS 186:1. GL 205:1. 1879, 49:1. 1881, 52:1. 1889, 32:1. PS 198:1. PL 309:1. RL 363:1. 1947, 264:3. RSA 564:1. 1955, 20:1. 2005, 252:7, eff. Jan. 1, 2006. 2011, 243:3, eff. Sept. 11, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:2 - Exemption.

    564:2 Exemption. –||No town or city in this state shall be required to give a bond when appointed trustee.|||Source. PS 198:2. PL 309:2. RL 363:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:2-a - Public Trustees.

    564:2-a Public Trustees. –||The judge of probate shall be empowered to appoint a suitable person as public trustee to hold office during the court's pleasure whose duty shall be to administer all such small charitable trusts as the court may assign to him, where it is found that the practical difficulties or the unreasonable expense involved in each trust would tend to defeat its purpose, provided, however, that in each instance the trustee of the fund assigned shall give his consent.|||Source. 1955, 183:1, eff. June 9, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:2-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:2-b - Citation.

    564:2-b Citation. –||Upon application the court may, in its discretion waive publication of citations and notices in such trusts where it is found in the interest of the state.|||Source. 1955, 183:2, eff. June 9, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:2-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:2-c - Collective Investments.

    564:2-c Collective Investments. –||The public trustee may establish common trust funds, in which may be combined money and property belonging to the various trusts in his care, for the purpose of facilitating investments, providing diversification and obtaining reasonable income; and provided, further, that the participating interests of said trusts are properly evidenced by appropriate bookkeeping entries showing on an annual basis the contribution, the profits, the income, the expenses, the fees and withdrawals allocable to each trust.|||Source. 1955, 183:2, eff. June 9, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:3 - Repealed by 1969, 312:2, eff. Aug. 29, 1969.

    564:3 Repealed by 1969, 312:2, eff. Aug. 29, 1969. –|
NH Rev Stat § 564:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:4 - Banks, Etc.

    564:4 Banks, Etc. –||Any bank as defined in RSA 383-A:2-201(a)(3) that holds trust powers, may be appointed trustee. Immediately upon the qualification of such a trustee it shall be the duty of the clerk to notify the bank commissioner of such appointment.|||Source. 1917, 193:1. PL 309:4. 1933, 67:9. RL 363:4. 2011, 88:20, eff. July 1, 2011. 2015, 272:49, eff. Oct. 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:5 - Bond of Banks.

    564:5 Bond of Banks. –||Except as otherwise provided in RSA 564:1, such trust company or national bank when appointed trustee shall give a surety company bond in such sum as the judge may order.|||Source. 1917, 193:3. PL 309:5. RL 363:5. 2011, 243:4, eff. Sept. 11, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:6 - Jurisdiction of Probate Court, Acknowledgment of.

    564:6 Jurisdiction of Probate Court, Acknowledgment of. –||Any national bank desiring to be appointed trustee shall first file with the attorney general, in such form as he may direct, its consent to an examination of its trust department by the bank commissioners of this state, and acknowledge itself amenable to the jurisdiction of the probate courts of this state.|||Source. 1917, 193:4. PL 309:6. RL 363:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:7 - Neglect to Give Bond.

    564:7 Neglect to Give Bond. –||Any person appointed a trustee who shall neglect or refuse to give bond when required shall be considered as having declined the acceptance of the trust.|||Source. RS 168:3. CS 178:3. GS 186:3. GL 205:3. PS 198:4. PL 309:7. RL 363:7.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:8 - Resignation.

    564:8 Resignation. –||A trustee appointed by will or by the judge in pursuance of this chapter may, upon request in writing to the judge, be permitted to resign the trust if the judge thinks it expedient.|||Source. RS 168:4. CS 178:4. GS 186:4. GL 205:4. PS 198:5. PL 309:8. RL 363:8.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:9 - Removal or Replacement.

    564:9 Removal or Replacement. –||I. A trustee who, in the opinion of the judge, becomes incompetent, unsuitable, or who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this chapter may be removed following a hearing which is preceded by notice to the trustee, all known beneficiaries, and such other persons determined by the judge to be interested in the trust.||II. A beneficiary or co-trustee of a trust who believes that the existing trustee should be replaced by a more suitable trustee may petition the court for such replacement. Upon receiving such a petition, and upon the court's determination that all other known beneficiaries have been notified, the court may remove the existing trustee and appoint a replacement trustee when, upon considering all relevant factors, the court finds that a change in trustee would be in keeping with the intent of the grantor, provided further that in deciding whether to replace a trustee, the court may consider the following additional factors in making such determination:||(a) It would substantially improve or benefit the administration of the trust.||(b) The relationship between the grantor and the trustee as it existed at the time the trust was created.||(c) Changes in the nature of the trustee since the creation of the trust.||(d) The relationship of the trustee with the beneficiaries.||(e) The responsiveness of the trustee to the beneficiaries.||(f) The experience and level of skill of the trustee.||(g) The investment performance of the trustee.||(h) The charges for services performed by the trustee.||(i) Any other reasonable factors pertaining to the administration of the trust.||III. This section shall apply to a trust or trustee of a trust, as defined in RSA 564-A:1.|||Source. RS 168:7. CS 178:7. GS 186:7. GL 205:7. PS 198:8. PL 309:9. RL 363:9. RSA 564:9. 1998, 376:1. 2003, 123:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:10 - Appointing New Trustee.

    564:10 Appointing New Trustee. –||If a trustee appointed in a will, no provision being made therein for perpetuating the trust, shall decline to accept it, or shall die, resign or be removed, a trustee may be appointed by the judge in his stead, after notice to the persons interested in the trust estate.|||Source. RS 168:5. CS 178:5. GS 186:5. GL 205:5. PS 198:6. PL 309:10. RL 363:10.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:10-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:10-a - Cemetery Trusts.

    564:10-a Cemetery Trusts. –||If a trustee appointed in a will over a trust for the benefit of a cemetery lot or lots, for which trustees of trust funds of a city or town may accept trust funds, shall resign, die, or be removed, the court of probate, on petition by the trustees of trust funds of the town or city where said cemetery lot or lots are located, and after notice to all other persons interested, may appoint said trustees of trust funds as trustees of said fund, the same to be held by said trustees as though they were originally bequeathed to the town or city for the uses and purposes in said will set forth.|||Source. 1955, 27:1, eff. March 7, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:11 - Effect of Appointment.

    564:11 Effect of Appointment. –||Every trustee appointed by the judge shall be bound by the provisions of this chapter in the same manner as if he were appointed by the will, and the estate given in trust shall vest in such trustee in like manner, to all intents and purposes, as the same vested in the original trustee under the will.|||Source. RS 168:6. CS 178:6. GS 186:6. GL 205:6. PS 198:7. PL 309:11. RL 363:11.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:12 - Agent to be Appointed by Trustee.

    564:12 Agent to be Appointed by Trustee. –||Every resident trustee who removes from the state or who goes out of the state with the intention of being absent more than a year, and every resident of another state who is appointed trustee within this state, shall forthwith appoint some person residing in this state as his agent, to receive notice of claims against the estate and service of process against him as trustee. The appointment shall be in writing, and shall state the full name and post office address of the agent, and shall be filed in the office of the clerk.|||Source. 1953, 70:1, eff. April 2, 1953. 2011, 88:20, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:13 - Duties.

    564:13 Duties. –||Any trustee appointed by the judge shall demand and receive of the original trustee all such estate as may have come to his hands by virtue of the trust, and shall manage, pay, and deliver over such property, or the income thereof, in the same manner and under the same obligations and duties as guardians, except as otherwise provided in the instrument creating the trust.|||Source. RS 168:8. CS 178:8. GS 186:8. GL 205:8. PS 198:9. PL 309:12. RL 363:12.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:14 - Authority to Sell, Etc.

    564:14 Authority to Sell, Etc. –||The judge, on application of a trustee or of any person interested, may, after notice to all persons interested, authorize and require the trustee to sell any property holden in trust, and to invest the proceeds of the sale in such manner as will be most for the interest of all persons concerned therein; and the judge may, from time to time, make such orders and decrees as he may think just and reasonable, in relation to the sale, management, investment, and disposition of the trust property and the settlement of the account of the trustee.|||Source. RS 168:9. CS 178:9. GS 186:9. GL 205:9. PS 198:10. PL 309:13. RL 363:13.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:15 - Termination of Trust.

    564:15 Termination of Trust. –||When the purposes for which any trust was created have been performed, the judge may, by license and decree, authorize the trustee to transfer, by suitable deed or conveyance, any property remaining in his hands to such person as shall be entitled thereto.|||Source. 1903, 130:1. PL 309:14. RL 363:14.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:15-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:15-a - Repealed by 2004, 130:9, I, eff. Oct. 1, 2004.

    564:15-a Repealed by 2004, 130:9, I, eff. Oct. 1, 2004. –|
NH Rev Stat § 564:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:16 - Authority to Mortgage, Etc.

    564:16 Authority to Mortgage, Etc. –||The judge, upon petition of a trustee, may authorize a mortgage or a lease of the trust property, as provided in the case of guardians by RSA 462.|||Source. 1915, 11:1. PL 309:15. RL 363:15.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:17 - Purchase of Fractional Part.

    564:17 Purchase of Fractional Part. –||When a trust estate is seized of an undivided fractional part of real estate the judge, upon petition of the trustee, notice and hearing, may authorize the trustee to purchase any other undivided fractional part of such real estate when it will be conducive to the interests of the trust estate to do so; and when the trustee shall be so authorized he may make the purchase and use the funds of the trust to pay the purchase money.|||Source. 1915, 11:3. PL 309:16. RL 363:16.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:18 - Repealed by 2004, 130:9, II, eff. Oct. 1, 2004.

    564:18 Repealed by 2004, 130:9, II, eff. Oct. 1, 2004. –|
NH Rev Stat § 564:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:20 - Conveyance by Administrator.

    564:20 Conveyance by Administrator. –||When any person deceased shall, at the time of his death, hold any real estate in trust for the use of another, and there is no dispute as to the trust or title of the deceased therein, the judge for the county in which such real estate is situate, upon application and notice, may license the executor or administrator of such deceased person to convey such real estate to the person for whose use the same was holden in trust by the deceased, or to such other person as may be designated by the judge.|||Source. 1848, 732:1. CS 178:10. GS 186:10. GL 205:10. PS 198:13. PL 309:19. RL 363:19.|
NH Rev Stat § 564:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 564 - Trustees of Estates|Section 564:21 - Compensation for Trustees of Non-Charitable Trusts.

    564:21 Compensation for Trustees of Non-Charitable Trusts. –||I. A trustee of a non-charitable trust shall be allowed reasonable expenses incurred in the execution of the trust; and unless otherwise expressly provided in the trust instrument, such trustee shall have such reasonable compensation for services as the judge may allow.||II. In the case of any corporate or professional trustee of a non-charitable trust, the probate court recognizes a rebuttable presumption that reasonable compensation for the trustee's services shall be defined by that institution's or professional's published inter vivos fee schedule or fee agreement, in effect at the time services are rendered. Corporate or professional trustees shall submit an affidavit to the probate court reciting their inter vivos fee schedule or fee agreement, in effect at the time services were rendered; a statement that the charges for the services rendered in this account are in accordance with the charges in that fee schedule or fee agreement; and a certification that the beneficiaries were notified of that fee schedule or fee agreement. Preparation of any trustee account or appearance at probate court, by a corporate or professional trustee, if required, shall not ordinarily be an additional charge.||III. Unless otherwise expressly provided in the trust instrument, such compensation and expenses shall be apportioned between income and principal as the trustee shall determine to be equitable, and shall be reviewed by the probate court.|||Source. 1947, 283:1. RSA 564:21. 1965, 176:1. 1997, 278:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|