Oregon Revised Statutes
Or. Rev. Stat. § 130.825 (2026)
UTC 1006. Reliance on trust instrument
✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
ORSoregonlegislature.gov
JustiaChapter on Justia
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
130.825 UTC 1006. Reliance on trust instrument. A trustee who acts in reasonable reliance on the terms of the trust as expressed in the trust instrument is not liable to a beneficiary for a breach of trust to the extent the breach resulted from the reliance. [2005 c.348 §88]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2014–2025 · leading case: Head v. Head, 323 P.3d 505 (Or. Ct. App. 2014).
Head v. Head, 323 P.3d 505 (Or. Ct. App. 2014). “Instead, defendants raised an affirmative defense of “reliance on trust instrument, ORS 130.825,” contending that Robert had relied on the powers granted to him in Section 8 of the trust instrument which, according to him, granted him complete discretion to distribute assets out…”
Hunt v. Goffman, 343 Or. App. 268 (Or. Ct. App. 2025). “The statute was enacted as part of the Oregon Uniform Trust Code (OUTC) and is found in a section on remedies for breach of trust, and potential defenses to a breach of trust claim—includ- ing statute of limitations defenses.”
Hunt v. Goffman, 343 Or. App. 268 (Or. Ct. App. 2025). “The statute was enacted as part of the Oregon Uniform Trust Code (OUTC) and is found in a section on remedies for breach of trust, and potential defenses to a breach of trust claim—includ- ing statute of limitations defenses.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.