Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 35-15-811 (2024)
Enforcement and defense of claims
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- (a) A trustee shall take reasonable steps to enforce claims of the trust and to defend claims against the trust.
- (b) A trustee may abandon or assign any claim that it believes is unreasonable to enforce to one or more of the beneficiaries of the trust holding the claim.
Acts 2004, ch. 537, § 69.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case (1 in the last 5 years), 2026–2026 · leading case: Clata Renee Brewer v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville & Davidson Cnty., No. M2024-01139-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. Feb. 4, 2026).
Clata Renee Brewer v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville & Davidson Cnty., No. M2024-01139-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. Feb. 4, 2026). “” Tenn. Code Ann. § 35-15-811 . Accordingly, the trustee of the Covenant Children’s Trust, if made a party in his or her capacity as trustee, would most likely17 have standing to raise the copyright argument.”
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