{"data":{"id":"us-ca/prob-16600","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PROB § 16600","heading":"","body":"(a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Uniform Directed Trust Act.\n(b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:\n(1) This chapter governs an arrangement commonly known as a directed trust.\n(2) In a directed trust, the terms of the trust grant a person other than a trustee a power over some aspect of the trust’s administration.\n(3) Under this chapter, this power is called a power of direction, the person that holds the power is called a trust director, a trustee that is subject to the power is called a directed trustee, and the trust is a directed trust.\n(4) A directed trustee is required to take reasonable action to comply with a trust director’s exercise or nonexercise of a power of direction.\n(5) Except for willful misconduct, a directed trustee is liable only for its own breach of trust in executing a direction and not for the trust director’s breach of trust in exercising or not exercising the power of direction.","path":["Probate Code - PROB","DIVISION 9. TRUST LAW [15000. - 19530.]","PART 4. TRUST ADMINISTRATION [16000. - 16632.]","CHAPTER 6. California Uniform Directed Trust Act [16600. - 16632.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"92dbf69880d039c3935e440d59aec462e16f5949e82d475dae89b1510836d555","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/prob-16504","next":"us-ca/prob-16602"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}