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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="14.5-811" title_number="14.5" title_name="Maryland Trust Act" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Duties and Powers of Trustee">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A trustee shall take reasonable steps to enforce claims of the trust and to defend claims against the trust.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A trustee may abandon a claim that is unreasonable to enforce or assign the claim to one or more of the beneficiaries of the trust holding the claim.</text>
  </level>
</section>
