Florida Statute 736.0811 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLII
ESTATES AND TRUSTS

Chapter 736
FLORIDA TRUST CODE

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736.0811 Enforcement and defense of claims.—A trustee shall take reasonable steps to enforce claims of the trust and to defend claims against the trust.

History.—s. 8, ch. 2006-217.

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Prewitt v. Kimmons, 237 So. 3d 1158 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...and her daughter. Therefore, questions of fact remain over Appellant’s breach of fiduciary duty claim. See § 736.0801, Fla. Stat. (2013) (“[T]he trustee shall administer the trust in good faith, in accordance with its terms . . . .”); id. § 736.0811 (“A trustee shall take reasonable steps to enforce claims of the trust ....

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