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Florida Statute 736.1013 - Full Text and Legal Analysis Florida Statute 736.1013 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research
Fla. Stat. § 736.1013 (2026) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Amendments
736.1013 Limitation on personal liability of trustee.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in the contract, a trustee is not personally liable on a contract properly entered into in the trustee’s fiduciary capacity in the course of administering the trust if the trustee in the contract disclosed the fiduciary capacity.
(2) A trustee is personally liable for torts committed in the course of administering a trust or for obligations arising from ownership or control of trust property only if the trustee is personally at fault.
(3) A claim based on a contract entered into by a trustee in the trustee’s fiduciary capacity, on an obligation arising from ownership or control of trust property, or on a tort committed in the course of administering a trust may be asserted in a judicial proceeding against the trustee in the trustee’s fiduciary capacity, whether or not the trustee is personally liable for the claim.
(4) Issues of liability between the trust estate and the trustee individually may be determined in a proceeding for accounting, surcharge, or indemnification or in any other appropriate proceeding.
History.s. 10, ch. 2006-217.

Cases Citing F.S. 736.1013

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·Sciaretta v. Lincoln Nat'l Life Ins., 899 F. Supp. 2d 1318 (S.D. Fla. 2012).

Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2012 WL 5195944

...2.MUCHNICK’S PERSONAL LIABILITY Next Muchnick argues that he is not personally liable to Lincoln under Florida law because he owed no duty to Lincoln to investigate the truth of Cotton’s representations made in the Policy Application. (Id. at 6). To support his contention, Muchnick cites Fla. Stat. § 736.1013 (2) (2011) which provides: A trustee is personally liable for torts committed in the course of administering a trust or for obligations arising from ownership or control of trust property only if the trustee is personally at fault....
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