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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 564-B:5-510: Limitation on Personal Liability of Beneficiaries.

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  1. Title LVI: PROBATE COURTS AND DECEDENTS' ESTATES
  2. Chapter ARTICLE 5: CREDITOR'S CLAIMS; SPENDTHRIFT AND DISCRETIONARY TRUSTS

(a) A beneficiary is not personally liable on a contract into which a trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector properly enters in the course of administering the trust, unless the beneficiary expressly agrees to be personally liable on that contract.

(b) A beneficiary is not personally liable for torts committed by a trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector in the course of administering the trust, unless the beneficiary is personally at fault.

(c) A beneficiary is not personally liable for claims or obligations arising from the ownership or control of trust property by a trustee, trust advisor, or trust protector, unless the beneficiary is personally at fault. Claims arising from the ownership or control of trust property include liability for any violation of environmental law.

(d) This section does not apply to a revocable trust to the extent that the beneficiary is the settlor of that trust.

(e) This section does not limit or otherwise affect a beneficiary's liability to return a distribution under the terms of the trust, the beneficiary's agreement with a trustee, or RSA 564-B:4-406(f), RSA 564-B:8-812, RSA 564-B:8-817(d), or any other provision of this chapter.

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