Cal. PROB § 16620
This is the official text of Cal. PROB § 16620, part of California’s Probate Code — governs wills, trusts, estates, and conservatorships.
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Official statutory text
The terms of a trust may relieve a cotrustee from duty and liability with respect to another cotrustee’s exercise or nonexercise of a power of the other cotrustee to the same extent that, in a directed trust, a directed trustee is relieved from duty and liability with respect to a trust director’s power of direction under Sections 16614, 16616, and 16618.
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