¶ A01
Introduction and Method
Purpose. This appendix states, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, the statutes of the fifty states and the District of Columbia on five subjects the treatise treats at length: the directed trust, the trust protector, decanting, the rule against perpetuities and the silent trust. The chapters analyze the rules and compare the leading statutes; the tables here let the reader find the governing provision of any state quickly and see where that state stands. The directed trust and the protector are discussed in chapters 6 through 15, decanting in chapters 17 and 18, perpetuities in chapter 22 and the silent trust in chapter 25.
Sources. Each entry rests on one of four kinds of source. The first is the enactment record of the Uniform Law Commission for the Uniform Trust Code, the Uniform Directed Trust Act, the Uniform Trust Decanting Act and the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities, read as of November 7, 2026. The second is the statutory text read for the chapters of this treatise, which governs wherever a chapter discusses the state. The third is the state code or session law itself, read on the legislature's site. The fourth, for states not otherwise covered, is a published survey by a recognized practitioner, checked against the uniform-act record and against the chapters. An entry drawn only from a survey is noted in ¶ A50.
How to read the tables. An entry reading "No statute" means that the state has enacted no statute on the point, as confirmed against the uniform-act enactment records and current surveys of the state's code. An entry reading "Not located" means that no statute on the point was located, or that one was located but its current text could not be confirmed. The entry is not a statement that the state has no law on the subject: the common law, the state's version of the Uniform Trust Code, or a court decision may supply the rule. Where a state has enacted a uniform act, the table says so and gives the citation of the enacted chapter; a state that enacts a uniform act often changes its text, and the enacted text controls. Citations follow the form of the state's code; "et seq." marks an act cited by its first section.
Currency. The law is stated as of November 2026. Several states changed their rules in 2024 through 2026, among them West Virginia, South Carolina, Minnesota and Indiana on perpetuities and Kentucky, Wisconsin, Vermont, Connecticut and the District of Columbia on decanting or directed trusts. Statutes in this field are amended often, and the current text should be read before any planning decision rests on an entry.