ABSTRACT

The questions considered in this chapter cover several areas: first, the trustee’s duty not to delegate any of his essential responsibilities under the trust; second, the appointment and removal of trustees; third, the trustee’s power of maintenance and advancement; fourth, the trustee’s power of investment; and fifthly, the variation of trusts, being the extent to which the duty to carry out the terms of the trust as originally conceived can be altered by application to the court.