Qualified
personal residence trust.
THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into _________[Date]
by and between _________ (hereinafter referred to as the "Donor"),
as Donor, and _________ and _________ (hereinafter referred to as the
"Trustees"), as Trustees, which Trust and Agreement is hereby
designated and may be referred to as the _________:
WITNESSETH:
That the Donor, in consideration of the agreements
and undertakings hereinafter made by the Trustees and other valuable
consideration, does hereby assign, transfer and set over unto the Trustees and
their successors the residence listed in Schedule A attached hereto, and the
Trustees are hereby authorized to and agree that they will receive and hold
such property and such additional property as may be transferred or assigned to
the Trustees by any Person or organization, to become a part of any trust fund
or funds created hereunder, and all investments and reinvestments thereof and
income therefrom for the following uses and trusts, to-wit:
ARTICLE I.
(A). Until the first to occur of (i) _________,
19__, (ii) the death of the Donor, or (iii) a Disqualifying Event as defined in
Paragraph (B) of Article II (the "Initial Term"), the Donor shall
have the right to occupy and use the residence described in Schedule A attached
hereto and the Donor may rent the residence during any portion of the period
that it is not occupied by the Donor and collect and retain rents therefor. The Trustees shall pay to the Donor all of
the income of the trust annually or at more frequent intervals.
(B). During the Initial Term the Trustees shall
expend such funds as the Donor requests upon maintenance of the house including
mortgage payments, real estate taxes and improvements.
(C). If the Initial Term ends because of the death
of the Donor, all assets of the trust shall be paid to the estate of the Donor.
(D). If the Initial Term ends because of the
expiration of the period of time specified in Paragraph (A) of this article,
any cash held in the trust for payment of expenses of the trust shall be paid
to the Donor and the residence shall be
distributed, per stirpes, to the issue of the Donor; provided, however, that if
any issue has not reached the age of twenty-five (25), such issue's share shall
be named for the issue and held and administered as provided in Article III.
(E). If the Initial Term ends because of a
Disqualifying Event, all the trust property shall be held and administered as
provided in Article III.
ARTICLE II.
(A). It is the intention of the Donor that this
trust qualify for the exception to Section 2702 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended (hereinafter referred to as the "Code") provided in
Section 2702(3)(A)(ii) for transfers in trust of personal residence. All of the
terms and provisions of this trust should be interpreted in accord with such
intent; the Trustees' powers shall be restricted to conform to such intent
whether or not specified in this document and no power or term provided herein
shall be effective if it would prevent qualification for such exception. The
Trustees are specifically authorized to amend the trust to the extent the
Trustees believe necessary to conform to the requirements of such exception;
provided, however, that this instrument may not be amended in such a way that
the trusts created under this article shall not so qualify.
(B). In accordance with the foregoing intent, a
Disqualifying Event shall be deemed to have occurred if the property held by
the trusts ceases to be a personal residence of the Donor unless the residence
is sold and the proceeds used to purchase another residence of the Donor within
two (2) years from the date of sale. If
no residence is purchased within two (2) years after the date of sale or upon
the date specified in clause (i) of Paragraph (A) of Article I, if earlier, or
if there is no longer an intent to purchase the residence, a Disqualifying
Event shall be deemed to have occurred to the extent of such proceeds.
(C). If the residential real property held by the
trust is damaged or destroyed such that it is unusable as a personal residence,
a Disqualifying Event shall be deemed to have occurred two (2) years after the
date of such damage or destruction unless, prior to such date, the replacement
of or repairs to such residence are completed or a new residence is acquired by
the trust. If the replacement of or repairs to such residence are not completed
or a new residence is not acquired by the trust within two (2) years from the
date of damage or destruction, or upon the date specified in clause (i) of
Paragraph (A) of Article I, if earlier, or if there is no longer an intent to
repair or replace such residence, a Disqualifying Event shall be deemed to have
occurred to the extent of such proceeds.
(D). The following provisions are included to
conform to the intent of Paragraph (A) of this article:
(1). During the Initial Term no distributions of
income or corpus may be made to any beneficiary other than the Donor.
(2). During the Initial Term the Trustees may not
hold as part of the trust any assets other than one residence to be used as a
personal residence by the Donor, cash to the extent permitted in subparagraph
(3) of this Paragraph (C) of this article and improvements to the residence
which meet the requirements of a personal residence.
(3). Additions of cash may be made to the trust and
cash may thereafter be held in a separate account in the trust which, when
combined with the cash already held in the trust, does not exceed the amount
required:
(a). For payment of trust expenses (including
mortgage payments) already incurred or reasonably expected to be incurred
within six (6) months from the date the addition is made;
(b). For improvements to such residential real
property to be paid for by the trust within six (6) months from the date the
addition of such cash is made; and
(c). For purchase by the trust of a residence to
replace another residence, within three (3) months of the date the addition of
such cash is made, provided that no such addition may be made for this purpose,
and the trust may not hold any such addition, unless the trustees have
previously entered into a contract to purchase the replacement residence. The trustees may hold, in a separate
account, the proceeds from the sale of a personal residence for a period not to
exceed two (2) years, if the trustees intend to use the proceeds to purchase
another residence. The trustees may also hold, in a separate account, insurance
proceeds paid as a result of damage to or destruction of such personal
residence for a period not to exceed two (2) years, if the trustees intend to
use the proceeds to repair or improve the residence.
(4). Any amounts of cash held in excess of the
amounts specified in subparagraph (3) of this Paragraph (C) of this article,
shall be distributed to the Donor at least quarterly.
(5). Commutation of the Donor's interest herein is
prohibited.
ARTICLE III.
(A). If a Disqualifying Event has occurred from the
time the residence held by the trust ceases to be a person residence, until
_________, 19__, there shall be paid to
the Donor an annual annuity amount equal to an amount determined by dividing
the value of all interests retained by the Donor as of the date of the
establishment of this trust by an annuity factor determined as of the date of
the establishment of the trust using the rate determined under Section 7520 of
the Code as of that date, and for the original term of the Donor's interest.
(B). On _________, 19__, all the assets of the trust shall be distributed, per stirpes, to
the issue of the Donor; provided, however, if any issue has not reached the age
of twenty-five (25), such issue's share shall be named for the issue and held
and administered as provided in Article IV.
(C). If the Donor dies before _________, _________,
all of the assets of the trust created under this Article III shall be paid and
distributed to the personal representative of the Donor's estate.
(D). Any such distributions pursuant to Paragraph
(A) of this article shall be paid from the net income of such respective trust
for the current tax year, or to the extent that such net income is insufficient,
from the principal of such trust, using to the extent available, first net
short term capital gains from the current tax year, then net long term capital
gains from the current tax year, and thereafter the balance of the principal of
such trust.
(E). In the case of the period beginning with the
time the residence held by the trust ceases to be a personal residence, the
amount distributed under Paragraph (A) of this article shall be the amount
which must be distributed at least yearly multiplied by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the number of days in the taxable year of the trust after
the residence held by the trusts ceases to be a personal residence and the
denominator of which is 365 (366 if February 29 is a day included in the numerator).
In the case of any other taxable year which is a period of less than twelve
(12) months (other than the taxable year in which the annuity interest created
in this article terminates), the amount distributed under Paragraph (A) of this
article shall be the amount which must be distributed at least yearly
multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the
taxable year of the trust and the denominator of which is 365 (366 if February
29 is a day included in the numerator). In the case of the taxable year of a
trust in which the annuity interest created in this article terminates, the
amount required to be distributed under Paragraph (A) of this article shall be
the amount which must be distributed at least yearly multiplied by a fraction,
the numerator of which is the number of days in the period beginning on the
first day of such taxable year and ending on the date on which such termination
occurs, and the denominator of which is 365 (366 if February 29 is a day
included in the numerator).
(F). In the event any payment is not paid when due,
any late payment shall bear interest at the applicable federal rate.
(G). In the event the net fair market value of the
trust assets is incorrectly determined by the Trustees, the Trustees shall pay
to the Donor (in the case of an undervaluation) or be repaid by the Donor (in
the case of an overvaluation) an amount equal to the difference between the
amount which the Trustees should have paid the recipient if the correct value
were used and the amount which the Trustees actually paid the recipient. Such
payments or repayments shall be made within a reasonable period after the final
determination of such value. The Trustees may in their absolute discretion
require that distributions to the Donor be made subject to written
acknowledgment and acceptance of these conditions.
(H). Prior to the end of the Donor's qualified
interest in this trust, no distributions of principal may be made from the
trust other than to the Donor with respect to the qualified annuity interest of
the Donor.
(I). No additions may be made to the trust during
the period it is governed by this article.
(J). No commutation may be made of the distributions
to the Donor provided for under this article.
(K). It is the express intent of the Donor that the
interest of the Donor created under this article shall qualify as a qualified
interest as described in Section 2702(b) of the Code, and that any gift from
the Donor to any trust created hereunder shall qualify to the maximum extent
possible for the deduction from the value of such gift as provided in Section
2702(a)(2)(B) of the Code and this agreement and all powers, trusts,
directions, authorizations, instructions and obligations granted to or imposed upon
the Trustees by this Agreement and by law shall be construed in such a way that
the trusts created under this article shall so qualify. To the same end and
purpose, the Trustees are expressly authorized and empowered, by an instrument
in writing, to amend this instrument in whatever manner the Trustees in their
absolute and uncontrolled discretion shall deem necessary or desirable to
qualify the interest retained by the Donor created under this article as
described in the aforesaid Section 2702(b) of the Code; provided, however, that
this instrument may not be amended in such a way that the trusts created under
this article shall not so qualify.
(L). If at any time there shall be no beneficiary
eligible to receive the principal of any trust created under Article I or
Article III hereunder, then the entire principal of any such trust shall be
paid and distributed to the persons then living who would have inherited the
estate of the Donor if the Donor had then died intestate under the laws of the
State of _________ existing on the date of the execution of this trust
agreement in the proportions prescribed by such laws.
ARTICLE IV.
(A). Any property designated under Paragraph (D) of
Article I or Paragraph (B) of Article III with the name of a child or more remote
issue of the Donor (each such child or more remote issue of the Donor
hereinafter referred to in this Paragraph (A) as the "Beneficiary")
shall be held as a separate and distinct trust and trust fund (which respective
trust shall be identified by the name of such Beneficiary) for the following
uses and purposes, to-wit:
(1). Until the Beneficiary with whose name a trust
is designated shall attain the age of twenty-five (25) years, the Trustees may,
from time to time, in such Trustees' absolute discretion, pay or distribute
such part or all of the net income of such trust as may be deemed appropriate
to any one or more then living of the group consisting of the Beneficiary with
whose name such trust is designated and the issue of such Beneficiary, in such
amounts and proportions as the Trustees shall determine.
(2). When any Beneficiary with whose name such a
trust is designated shall have attained the age of twenty-five (25) years, the
entire remaining principal of the trust designated with the name of said
Beneficiary shall be paid and distributed to said Beneficiary; provided,
however, that the Trustees may, in such Trustees' absolute discretion, postpone
the date on which the right to the aforesaid distribution vests for a period
not exceeding two (2) years.
(3). If any Beneficiary with whose name such a trust
is designated shall die prior to the termination of such trust, the entire
principal of the trust designated with the name of said Beneficiary shall be
paid and distributed to such appointee or appointees, including such
Beneficiary's estate, in such amounts and proportions, for such estates and
interests, and free of trust or upon such terms, trusts, conditions and
limitations as such Beneficiary may designate in such Beneficiary's last will
and testament by making specific reference to and exercise of this power herein
given to such Beneficiary. If such Beneficiary shall die intestate or shall
fail in part or entirely to exercise this power, the entire principal of the
trust designated with the name of said Beneficiary, or the part thereof not
disposed of by such Beneficiary as aforesaid, shall be paid and distributed as
follows:
(a). If such Beneficiary leaves issue then
surviving, to such Beneficiary's then surviving issue, per stirpes; provided, however,
that if any such issue shall not then have attained the age of twenty-five (25)
years, the share or partial share of such issue shall be designated with the
name of such issue and shall continue to be held as a separate and distinct
trust and trust fund pursuant to the terms of this Paragraph (A).
(b). If such Beneficiary leaves no issue then
surviving, such property shall be divided into equal shares, and one such share
shall be paid and distributed to each then surviving brother or sister of said
Beneficiary and one such share, per stirpes, to the then surviving issue of any
then deceased brother or sister of said Beneficiary; or if there shall not then
be any such surviving brother or sister or issue thereof, then to the then
surviving issue, per stirpes, of such Beneficiary's nearest ascendant who is a
descendant of the Donor and of whom there are issue then surviving; or if there
shall not then be any such surviving issue, then to the then surviving issue of
the Donor, per stirpes; provided, however, that if any such person shall not
then have attained the age of twenty-five (25) years, the share or partial
share which would otherwise be paid and distributed to such person shall be
added to the trust fund created under this Paragraph (A) designated with the
name of such person, or if such a trust fund is not then in existence, such
share or partial share shall be held as a separate and distinct trust and trust
fund designated with the name of such person for the same uses and purposes
specified in this Paragraph (A).
(B). Net income not paid or distributed from any
trust created by this article may be added to any subsequent income payment
from such trust. Until distributed, accrued and accumulated income shall be
regarded for all purposes under this trust agreement as principal of the
respective trusts created by this article. First consideration for any
distribution of income or principal from any such trust shall be given to the
person, with whose name such trust is designated.
(C). The Trustees may, from time to time, in such
Trustees' absolute discretion, pay or distribute to any Beneficiary then
eligible to receive income from any trust created by this article such part of
the principal of the trust from which such Beneficiary is eligible to receive
income as the Trustees may deem appropriate. No such payment or distribution
shall constitute an advance against any amount receivable by any person from
any trust created by this article unless the Trustees shall otherwise provide
in writing at the time of making such payment, and then only to the extent so
provided.
(D). Any of the trusts created under this article
may be terminated, in whole or in part, at any time after the termination of
the trusts created under Article I or Article III, if such action is deemed
advisable and for the best interests of such trust or trusts, or the
Beneficiaries thereof, in the sole discretion of the Trustees whose judgment
thereon shall be conclusive and free from question by anyone or in any court.
In the event of such termination, the principal of each trust so terminated,
together with the accrued, accumulated and undistributed income thereof, shall
be paid over and distributed to that person with whose name such trust is
designated. In giving the Trustees such discretion to terminate any such trust,
the Donor recognizes that the interests of present and future Beneficiaries may
be terminated upon the exercise of such discretion.
(E). If at any time after the termination of the
trusts created by this article there shall be no Beneficiary eligible to
receive the income or principal of any trust created by this article, the
entire principal of such trust created by this article shall be paid and
distributed to the persons then living who would have been the next of kin of
the Donor if the Donor had died at that time.
(F). All interests, both in income and in principal,
in all trusts created by this article are intended for the personal protection
and welfare of the Beneficiaries thereof; no such interest shall be transferable,
voluntarily or involuntarily, by the Beneficiary thereof nor subject to the
claims of creditors or of a spouse or former spouse of such Beneficiary. In the
event that the Trustees shall have notice or believe that the rights or
interests of any Beneficiary in or to any part of the income or principal of
any trust created by this article have been or may be diverted from the purpose
of providing for the personal protection and welfare of such Beneficiary,
whether by voluntary act or legal process, the Trustees shall not pay such
income or principal to such Beneficiary, but may utilize so much thereof as the
Trustees, in such Trustees' sole discretion, deem appropriate for the care,
support, maintenance, education or other necessities of such Beneficiary, such
utilization, if any, to be made as the Trustees deem appropriate under the
circumstances.
(G). Any person may irrevocably disclaim and
renounce any part or all of any gift made to such person by this article. Any
such disclaimer and renunciation shall be effected in the manner required by
applicable law. If any person disclaims and renounces as aforesaid all interest
in all or any part of any gift made to such person by this article, all of such
gift or all of such part shall be disposed of as if such person had not
survived the Donor. If any person disclaims and renounces as aforesaid less
than all interest in all or any part of any gift made to such person by this
article, all of such gift or all of such part shall be held in trust otherwise
as hereinabove provided.
(H). If, in the absence of this provision, any trust
created under this article would at any time fail in whole or in part because
of violation of any applicable rule against perpetuities, accumulation of
profits, restraints on alienation, or remoteness of vesting, then such trust
fund shall terminate as of the date preceding the termination of the
permissible period prescribed by such rule, and the Trustees shall immediately
distribute the principal of such trust fund to the person with whose name such
trust is designated.
ARTICLE V.
The Donor or any other person or organization may,
at any time other than when the trust is governed by Article III, give, transfer or bequeath to this trust or
to any separate trust fund created hereunder, either by inter vivos transfer or
testamentary disposition, additional money or property of any kind acceptable
to the Trustees, and in such event, such additional property shall become a
part of the principal of the trust or trust fund to which it is given and shall
be divided, allocated, administered and distributed as if it originally had
been a part thereof. The Trustees may assume any obligation associated with any
such property.
ARTICLE VI.
(A). If any person to whom any payment or
distribution from any trust created by Article IV of this instrument is
required or permitted by any provision of this instrument to be made is then a
minor, incompetent or for any other reason incapable of receiving such payment
or distribution, or if there is a substantial risk that such payment or
distribution will be involuntarily diverted from benefitting such person, the
Trustees may, but need not, from time to time, exercise any one or more of the
following powers:
(1). Transfer property to the name of such person
(as by depositing cash or registering securities in his name), whether or not
such person is then able to exercise control over such property.
(2). Transfer property to any creditor of such
person in discharge of any debts of such person.
(3). Use such payment or distribution to obtain
goods or services for such person if any obligation of any other person is not
thereby discharged.
(B). No such payment or distribution shall be made
which would have the effect of satisfying any legal obligation of anyone other
than such person nor shall any such payment or distribution be made to any
donor or donor's spouse or to any spouse of a child of the Donor either
individually or as a fiduciary.
(C). The receipt of any person to whom property is
transferred pursuant to this article or other evidence of application made
hereunder for the benefit of any Beneficiary shall fully discharge the Trustees
from any further liability in connection with such payment or distribution.
(D). The determinations of the Trustees with respect
to all matters referred to in this article shall be final.
(E). Nothing contained in this article shall
authorize any Trustee to transfer any property to himself in a nonfiduciary
capacity or to use any such payment or distribution to support or maintain any
person whom he is obligated to support or maintain.
ARTICLE VII.
In allotting or making any division of or payment or
distribution from any trust fund or any portion thereof for any purpose hereunder,
the Trustees shall not be required to convert any property, real or personal,
tangible or intangible, into money or to divide or apportion each or any item
of property, but may, in the sole and absolute discretion of the Trustees,
allot all or any part (including an undivided interest) of any item of
property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, to any fund or to any
beneficiary provided for by this instrument; or the Trustees may convert any
property into any other form, it being the Donor's intent and purpose to leave
all such divisions and apportionments entirely to the discretion of the
Trustees with the direction merely that each fund, share, portion or part at
any time created or provided for herein shall be constituted so that the same
shall have the value, relative or absolute, designated by this instrument.
ARTICLE VIII.
Subject to the provisions and limitations herein
expressly set forth in this instrument, the Trustees shall have the powers
hereinbelow granted, in addition to all powers which are granted by applicable
law. While it is the Donor's intention that the Trustees have broad and
effective powers to carry out the provisions of this trust agreement, no power
conferred upon any trustee by this article shall be exercised in such a manner
as, in the aggregate, to deprive the Donor or any trust created hereunder of
any otherwise available tax exemption, deduction or credit or to qualify for
special treatment. The powers hereinbelow granted shall not be exhausted by any
use thereof, but each shall be continuing; and each shall continue and be
exercisable until all of the provisions of this trust agreement are fully
executed. Any of the powers herein granted may be exercised without the license
or authorization of any court or other legal authority. The determination of
the Trustees with respect to whether to exercise or not to exercise any power
shall be final. Such powers are the powers:
(1). To retain any and all stocks, bonds, notes,
securities and other property, real or personal (but not wasting assets),
comprising a part of the trust herein provided without liability for any
decrease in the value thereof.
(2). For fair and adequate consideration, to sell,
at public or private sale, exchange for like or unlike property, convey, lease
for longer or shorter terms than the trust herein provided, and otherwise
dispose of, any and all property, real or personal, held hereunder upon such
terms and credits as the Trustees may deem proper, including specifically the
power to sell or otherwise dispose of any such property for less than its
acquisition or appraised value, without liability for any loss resulting from
such disposition.
(3). For fair and adequate consideration, to invest
any money held hereunder and available for investment in any and all kinds of
securities or property except wasting assets, whether or not of the kind
authorized by the common law or by the laws of any state or country to which
they would, in the absence of this provision, be subject, and to form or join
in forming any corporation and subscribe for and acquire stock in any
corporation in exchange for money or other property.
(4). To invest and reinvest and retain the
investment of the whole or any part of the trust fund or any and all of the
proceeds from the disposition of any assets of any trust fund in any single
security or other asset, or any limited number of securities or other assets,
or any exchanged or merged or substitute or successor security or securities,
or any single type or limited number of types of securities or other assets,
without liability for any loss resulting from any lack of diversification; it
being the intention hereby to free and absolve the Trustees from any and all
obligation or liability for any lack of diversification of investments and
assets held in the trust fund, or any loss resulting therefrom, regardless of
whether such investments or assets were held or owned by the Donor at any time
or whether they are exchanged or merged or successor or substitute investments
for assets owned by the Donor or whether they are investments or assets
acquired during the Donor's life or after the Donor's death by the Trustees.
(5). Subject to the express limitations of Article
II of this agreement, to retain cash included in the trust fund without
investment thereof for such period of time as the Trustees shall deem
advisable, whenever the Trustees shall determine that it is inadvisable to
invest such cash because of market conditions or for any other reason.
(6). To vote directly or by proxy at any election or
stockholders' meeting any shares of stock held hereunder.
(7). To exercise or dispose of or reject any
purchase rights arising from or issued in connection with any stock, securities
or other property held hereunder.
(8). To repair, alter or demolish any existing
building or structure and to erect any buildings and structures upon any real
estate held hereunder.
(9). To effect fire, rent, title, liability,
casualty or other insurance of such nature and in such form and amount as may
be desirable upon any property held hereunder.
(10). To participate in any plan or proceeding for
protecting or enforcing any right, obligation or interest arising from any
property held hereunder or for reorganizing, consolidating, merging or
adjusting the finances of any corporation issuing the same; to accept in lieu
thereof any new property; to pay any assessment or expense incident thereto; to
join in any voting trust agreement and to do any other act or thing which the
trustees may deem necessary or advisable in connection therewith.
(11). To employ, upon such terms and with such
discretionary powers as the Trustees may approve, servants, agents, custodians
of securities or other property, accountants or other professional persons, and
attorneys-at-law or in-fact, and to obtain the advice of any bank, trust
company, investment counsel or any other institution or individual and permit
books of account to be kept by any of the foregoing and pay for such services
out of the trust fund profiting thereby, making such division as between principal
and income thereof as the Trustees may deem just within the scope of generally
accepted accounting principles.
(12). To collect, pay, abandon, contest, compromise
or submit to arbitration any claim in favor of or against the trust fund, or
any part thereof, or the Trustees.
(13). To borrow money for such periods of time and
upon such terms and conditions as the Trustees may deem advisable for any
purpose whatsoever, and the Trustees may mortgage or pledge such part or the
whole of the trust fund as may be required to secure such loan or loans.
(14). To delegate from time to time the exercise of
the Trustees' powers and duties, in whole or in part, to one or more other
Trustees if any additional Trustee or Trustees are acting hereunder or to
attorneys or agents, including in either case delegation of discretionary as
well as ministerial powers and the delegation of the performance and execution
of all acts and the exercise of all judgment and discretion in connection with
the administration or performance of the trust.
(15). To manage and conduct or participate in the
management or conduct of the affairs of any corporation, the stock of which may
be held hereunder; to act as officer, director, attorney or employee of any
such corporation or for the trust or Trustees and to receive reasonable
compensation for acting as such; to vote such stock in favor of the increase or
decrease of the capital of any such corporation and to take such action with
regard to such stock in the interest of the trust as the Trustees in the
Trustees' discretion may determine; and personally to own stock or be
interested in any corporation or business in which the trust shall own stock or
be interested.
(16). To hold stocks and other assets and to open
bank accounts for deposits of money comprising a part of the trust fund in the
individual name of a Trustee or the Trustees' nominee with or without
disclosing any fiduciary relationship, and to employ custodians of securities
or other property, and to permit such custodians to hold such securities or
other property in their own name or in the name of a nominee, with or without
disclosing any fiduciary relationship.
(17). To change the situs of the trust and of any
property which is a part of the trust to any place in the United States of
America.
(18). Until _________ the Donor in a nonfiduciary
capacity may reacquire the trust corpus by substituting other property of an
equivalent value.
ARTICLE IX.
This agreement and trust are specifically created as
a _________ agreement and trust and the construction, validity and effect of
this agreement and the rights and duties of the Beneficiaries and the Trustees
hereof shall at all times be governed exclusively by the laws of the State of
_________.
ARTICLE X.
This agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, any one of which shall constitute the agreement between the
parties.
ARTICLE XI.
(A). Unless the context requires otherwise, all
words used in this instrument in the singular number shall extend to and
include the plural, all words used in the plural number shall extend to and
include the singular, and all words used in any gender shall extend to and
include all genders.
(B). For all purposes under this instrument,
adoption of a minor who is not an issue of the Donor by a person or persons
shall have the same effect except for determining his age as if such minor were
born to such person or persons on the date of his adoption.
(C). As used in this instrument, the terms
"brother" and "sister" shall include persons who have
acquired the designated relationship by the half as well as the whole blood,
but shall be limited to persons related to the Donor by blood or adoption.
(D). As used in this instrument, the term
"Trustees" shall include all those holding such office hereunder from
time to time without regard to whether they were initially appointed, successor
or additional Trustees.
(E). As used in this instrument, the term
"children" means first generation offspring of the designated
ancestor; the term "issue" means both children of the designated
ancestor and lineal descendants indefinitely.
ARTICLE XII.
(A). _________ and _________ are hereby appointed
initial Trustees hereunder. Any of said Trustees, or any successor Trustee,
acting hereunder shall have the power, exercisable by the execution of a
written instrument so specifying, to nominate and appoint such Trustee's
immediate successor as Trustee hereunder. Such nomination may be changed by
such nominating Trustee at any time while such Trustee is acting as Trustee
hereunder. Any such nominated successor Trustee shall become a Trustee hereof
whenever the nominating Trustee shall cease to serve as Trustee. In the event
any Trustee acting hereunder shall cease to serve as Trustee and (1) has not
effectively nominated such Trustee's immediate successor as Trustee or (2) if
the so nominated successor Trustee shall, for any reason, not become a Trustee
hereunder, then the remaining Trustee or Trustees then serving hereunder shall
nominate and appoint such successor Trustee.
(B). Any individual or corporation at any time
serving as Trustee hereunder may resign as Trustee of any trust or trusts
created hereunder by delivering a written instrument to such effect signed by
or on behalf of such Trustee to the Donor if the Donor is then living otherwise
to the other Trustees then serving hereunder. Any such resignation shall be
effective as of the date of completion of delivery of such instrument to such
person or persons or as of such later date as shall be specified in such
instrument.
(C). No bond or other security shall ever be
required to be given or be filed by any Trustee hereunder for the faithful
execution of his duty hereunder. If, notwithstanding the foregoing provision, a
bond shall nevertheless be required, no sureties shall be required thereon.
(D). No Trustee hereunder shall be liable except for
wilful malfeasance or bad faith.
(E). The vote of a majority of the Trustees entitled
to act upon any matter shall be sufficient to govern any action.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, _________, as Donor, and
_________ and _________, as Trustees, have hereunto set their hands and seals.
In the Presence of: