SECTION I Appointment of Trustee
1. Grantor hereby appoints (name of trustee), of
________________, Oklahoma, as Trustee of this Trust.
2. The Trustee may, by written instrument, signed and
acknowledged, resign from office without leave of court at any time and for any reason,
and appoint a successor Trustee to act in the place and stead of the Trustee. Should the
Trustee fail to appoint a successor Trustee, Grantor may, by appropriate instrument in
writing, appoint a successor Trustee. In no event may Grantor be appointed to act as
Trustee.
3. Any successor Trustee shall, upon the acceptance of
the office by written instrument signed and acknowledged by the Trustee, have the same
powers, rights and duties, and the same title to the Trust estate as did the Trustee's
predecessor as Trustee.
4. No Trustee shall be required to furnish any bond or
surety. No Trustee shall be responsible or liable for the acts or omissions of any
predecessor Trustee or of a custodian, agent, depositary or counsel selected with
reasonable care.
5. As used herein, the term "Trustee" shall
include not only the original Trustee but also any successor Trustee.
6. In the case of any Trustee which is a bank, trust
company or association authorized to exercise general trust powers, references to such
entity shall include its successor or successors or any bank, trust company or association
with which it or its successors may become merged or consolidated.
7. The Trustee shall have the power and authority with
respect to the Trust estate, shall be charged with the duties and obligations, and shall
be subject to the limitations and restrictions hereinafter set forth.
SECTION II General Provisions Relating
to Trust
1. With respect to the management of the Trust, the
character of and the manner of making investments and reinvestments of Trust funds, the
sale, conveyance or transfer of Trust property and the powers and duties of the Trustee,
the provisions of the Oklahoma Trust Act now in force and the provisions of investments by
Trustees, Sections 161 through 163 of Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall govern
except as they may be modified or limited by the provisions of this Trust. Repeal or
amendment of the statutes shall not change the powers and duties of the Trustee hereunder,
but the provisions of such statutes existing on the date this Trust is executed, except as
herein modified or limited, shall continue in effect with respect to all property which
may come into the hands of the Trustee, whether such property has a situs within or
without the State of Oklahoma.
2. Except as provided in paragraph 2 of Section IV
hereof, each beneficiary is hereby prohibited from anticipating, encumbering, assigning or
in any other manner disposing of the interest of the beneficiary in either principal or
income and is without power so to do; nor shall such interest be subject to the
liabilities or obligations of the beneficiary, nor to attachment, execution or other legal
process, bankruptcy proceedings or claims of creditors or others.
3. The Trustee shall keep books of account showing all
transactions relating to the Trust estate, and shall also in each year furnish to each
beneficiary currently receiving distributions therefrom, or to any attorney-in-fact acting
on the behalf of the beneficiary, or to the guardian of the beneficiary if a guardian has
been appointed, a statement showing how the Trust estate is invested and all transactions
relating thereto subsequent to the last preceding account rendered.
4. Whenever distribution of income or principal is to be
made under the terms of this Trust to a minor or other person under a legal disability of
any nature, the Trustee, in the Trustee's sole discretion, may make such distributions to
others for the benefit of such minor or such legally disabled person without the
intervention of a guardian.
5. The powers, duties and responsibilities herein set
out shall not be deemed to exclude other implied powers, duties or responsibilities not
inconsistent therewith.
6. The compensation of the Trustee for services rendered
to the Trust shall be reasonable and commensurate with the compensation for like services
ordinarily and customarily paid in the community where the service is rendered.
7. The Trustee shall have all of the foregoing powers
and duties during the term of this Trust and thereafter until final distribution of the
Trust.
SECTION III Additions to Trust Estate
Grantor or other persons from time to time by inter
vivos or testamentary transfers may add property to the Trust estate. The receipt of the
Trustee for such property shall constitute acceptance thereof by the Trustee.
SECTION IV Provisions Relating to
Distributions of Income and Principal
1. During the term of this Trust the Trustee shall pay
to or for the benefit of Primary Beneficiary so much or all of the income and principal of
the Trust as the Trustee determines, in the Trustee's sole discretion, to be necessary or
advisable for the health, maintenance, support, education and welfare of Primary
Beneficiary, after giving primary consideration to Primary Beneficiary's Condition of Need
and after consulting with Primary Beneficiary and any one or more of the following members
of Primary Beneficiary's family or community, to-wit:
_______________________________________; _____________________________; and
__________________. The Trustee shall have no liability or responsibility, either to
Grantor or any other donor to this Trust, or to Primary Beneficiary, for relying on
information provided by Primary Beneficiary or any such consultants, nor shall the Trustee
be under any duty to see to the proper application of any funds distributed to, or
pursuant to any instructions of, Primary Beneficiary or any of such consultants.
2. Upon the death of Primary Beneficiary, or the
determination by the Trustee in the Trustee's sole discretion that Primary Beneficiary's
Condition of Need no longer exists, whichever first occurs, this Trust shall terminate and
all remaining assets of the Trust shall be distributed as follows:
[ ] To Primary Beneficiary or, if the Primary
Beneficiary is then deceased, to the estate of the Primary Beneficiary;[or]
[ ] To such charitable organization or organizations, in
such amounts and for such charitable purposes, as shall be selected and determined by
Primary Beneficiary by appropriate instrument in writing, or in the absence of such
selection and determination, by the Trustee;
3. Whenever any distribution under subsection 2 of this
Section IV is required to be made to a beneficiary under the age of twenty-one years, the
interest so required to be distributed shall be in defeasibly vested in the beneficiary,
but the Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, retain the assets so distributable
until the beneficiary attains age twenty-one or dies, whichever first occurs, and the
Trustee may pay the income and principal to the beneficiary in such amounts and from time
to time as the Trustee may determine. Upon the beneficiary's attaining the age of
twenty-one, the Trustee shall deliver the then remaining principal and undistributed
income to the beneficiary. If the beneficiary dies prior to attaining such age, then, on
the date of the death of the beneficiary, the Trustee shall deliver the then remaining
principal and undistributed income to the estate of the beneficiary. In the alternative,
the Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, transfer such assets to a Custodian for
the beneficiary under the Oklahoma Uniform Transfers to Minors Act and specify that the
Custodian shall transfer the property to the beneficiary when the beneficiary reaches the
age of twenty-one years.
4. As used herein the term "charitable
purposes" shall be limited to and shall include religious, charitable, scientific,
literary, educational or exclusively public purposes within the meaning of those terms as
used in Section 501(c)(3) and Section 170(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code, but only
such purposes as also constitute public charitable purposes under the law of the State of
Oklahoma.
SECTION V Miscellaneous Provisions
1. Grantor declares that Grantor has been fully advised
as to the legal effects of the execution of this instrument and informed as to the
character and amount of the property hereby conveyed and further that Grantor has given
consideration to the question of whether the Trust herein created shall be revocable or
irrevocable, and Grantor now declares that it shall be wholly and completely irrevocable
and that Grantor shall not have any right, capacity or power at any time to revoke,
terminate, alter or amend any of the provisions hereof.
2. This Declaration of Trust and all of its provisions
shall be construed and administered in accordance with the laws of the State of Oklahoma.
3. This Declaration of Trust shall be binding upon the
executors, administrators and assigns of Grantor, and the beneficiaries named herein and
upon the successors to the Trustee.
4. This Declaration of Trust shall be known as the
"[name of beneficiary] SUPPORT TRUST."
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Grantor has hereunto subscribed
Grantor's name this ___ day of _______, 199_.
_________________
"Grantor"
STATE OF OKLAHOMA )
) SS.
COUNTY OF __________ )
BEFORE ME, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for
said County and State, on this ____ day of _______, 199_, personally appeared [name of
Grantor], to me known to be the identical person who executed the within and foregoing
instrument, and acknowledged to me that he or she executed the same as his or her free and
voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth.
WITNESS my hand and official seal the day and year last
above written.
____________________
Notary Public
My commission expires:
______________________
[SEAL]
ACCEPTANCE OF TRUSTEE
[name of trustee], the Trustee named in the above and
foregoing Declaration of Trust, hereby accepts the same, acknowledges receipt of the
property described in Schedule A to said Declaration of Trust, and agrees to act under the
terms and provisions thereof.
DATED this ____ day of ______, 199_.
SCHEDULE A TO DECLARATION OF TRUST CREATING THE [NAME OF
BENEFICIARY] SUPPORT TRUST $ ______ Cash