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Codify -- Not Modify: Creditor Remedies And The Ohio Uniform Trust Code, Alan Newman, Richard E. Davis
Codify -- Not Modify: Creditor Remedies And The Ohio Uniform Trust Code, Alan Newman, Richard E. Davis
Akron Law Faculty Publications
In a number of states that have considered the Uniform Trust Code (“UTC”), Article 5, "Creditor’s Claims; Spendthrift And Discretionary Trusts," has become a flash point of controversy. The prefatory note to the UTC states that much of the UTC is a codification of the common law of trusts, but that it also introduces a number of innovative provisions. UTC critics, on the one hand, claim that more than a hundred years of common law have been tossed aside, giving creditors greatly expanded abilities to reach through once impenetrable barriers that previously protected trust beneficiaries, while supporters, on the other …
Ohio Uniform Trust Code Takes Shape, Alan Newman
Ohio Uniform Trust Code Takes Shape, Alan Newman
Akron Law Faculty Publications
The Uniform Trust Code (UTC) has been under study in Ohio since shortly after its approval by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 2000. See, e.g., Susan S. Locke, et. al., Uniform Trust Code, 11 PLJO 49 (Mar./Apr. 2001); David M. English, The Uniform Trust Code (2000) and Its Application to Ohio, 12 PLJO 1 (Sept./Oct. 2001); and David M. English, The Uniform Trust Code (2000) and its Application to Ohio, 30 Capital University Law Review 1 (2000).
Substantial progress has been made towards the adoption of a modified version of the UTC in Ohio. At …