{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-53-12-506","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 53-12-506","heading":"Statutory provisions applicable to trust directors; defenses available to trust directors; personal jurisdiction; term “trustee” includes trust director where required or permitted.","body":"(a) An individual shall be eligible to serve as a trust director regardless of citizenship and residency. If the trust director is a corporation, partnership, or other entity, it shall be required to have the power to act as a trustee in Georgia.\n(b) The rules applicable to a trustee apply to a trust director regarding:\n(1) Jurisdiction under Code Section 53-12-6;\n(2) Appointment and acceptance, compensation, and resignation and removal of trustees under Article 11 of this chapter;\n(3) Accounting under Article 12 of this chapter; and\n(4) Nonresidents and foreign entities acting as trustees under Article 15 of this chapter.\n(c) In an action against a trust director for breach of trust, the trust director may assert the same defenses a trustee in a like position and under similar circumstances could assert in an action for breach of trust against the trustee.\n(d) By accepting appointment as a trust director of a trust subject to this article, a trust director submits to personal jurisdiction of the courts of this state regarding any matter related to a power or duty of a trust director. This subsection shall not preclude use of another method to obtain jurisdiction over a trust director.\n(e) As used in this Code, where the context requires or permits, the term “trustee” includes a trust director.","path":["TITLE 53 Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates","CHAPTER 12 Trusts","Article 18 Trust Directors"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.53.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:58Z","sha256":"875e0b9c5f895148ea3d8a1423279158338b9a6844c0913923114a790d801118","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-53-12-505","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-53-13-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}