{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-6-2-117","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 6-2-117","heading":"Assignee removal -- Successor assignee.","body":"(1) The assignor or a creditor may request a court with jurisdiction to remove the assignee, if the assignor or creditor has reasonable grounds for removal exist under Subsection (2).\n(2) After a request under Subsection (1) or on the court's initiative in an action pending before a court with jurisdiction in accordance with Section 6-2-120, the court may remove an assignee:\n(a) for cause, including the assignee's fraud, dishonesty, incompetence, gross mismanagement, or failure to comply with this chapter; or\n(b) if removal of the assignee best serves the interests of the creditors.\n(3)\n(a) After an assignee resigns, or is removed, dies, or becomes incapacitated, a successor assignee provided for in the assignment agreement becomes the assignee, unless the successor assignee is not eligible to be an assignee under Subsection 6-2-103(1) or is subject to removal under Subsection (2).\n(b) A court with jurisdiction shall appoint a successor assignee if:\n(i) the assignment agreement does not provide for a successor assignee; or\n(ii) the successor assignee provided for in the assignment agreement is ineligible to be an assignee under Subsection 6-2-103(1) or is subject to removal under Subsection (2).\n(4) Subject to Section 6-2-116, an assignee that resigns, or is removed, dies, or becomes incapacitated, is discharged from the assignee's duties under this chapter when the assignee, or a representative of a deceased or incapacitated assignee:\n(a) accounts for and turns over to the successor assignee all assets of the assignment estate; and\n(b) submits to creditors a report summarizing the receipts and disbursements made during the service of the assignee.\n(5) Subject to an applicable privilege, a court with jurisdiction may order an attorney, accountant, or other person that has information in a record relating to the assignment estate or the assignor's financial affairs to turn over or disclose the record to the successor assignee.","path":["Title 6 Assignment for Benefit of Creditors","Chapter 6-2 Uniform Assignment for Benefit of Creditors"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title6/Chapter2/6-2-S117.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:33Z","sha256":"25ad311f0f1fb336732fc3c515d164adaa6fa22dd3b56fae1d82cffa9f065124","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-6-2-116","next":"us-ut/utah-code-6-2-118"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}