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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="14-401" title_number="14" title_name="Trusts" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Maryland Discretionary Trust Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Adult” means an individual who is at least 18 years of age.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Beneficiary” means an individual for whose present benefit property is held by a trustee in accordance with this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Conservator” means a person appointed or qualified by a court to act as general, limited, or temporary guardian of an individual’s property or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Court” means the circuit courts of the State of Maryland.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Declarant” means a transferor who creates a trust under this subtitle and serves as the trustee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Guardian” means a person appointed or qualified by a court as a guardian of the person of an individual, including a limited guardian, but not a person who is only a guardian ad litem.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Legal representative” means a personal representative, conservator, or an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Member of the beneficiary’s family” means a beneficiary’s spouse, descendant, stepchild, parent, stepparent, grandparent, brother, sister, uncle, or aunt, whether of the whole or half blood or by adoption.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Person” means an adult, corporation, organization, or any other legal entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Personal representative” means an executor, administrator, or special administrator of a decedent’s estate, a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions, or a successor to any of them.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“State” means the United States of America, a state or subdivision thereof, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Transferor” means a person who creates a trust by transfer or declaration under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Transferor” does not include a person, other than the person who created the trust, who augments an existing trust.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Trust” means a trust created under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Trust” does not include a trust created by the transferor for the benefit of the transferor.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“Trust property” means any property, income, or proceeds resulting from the investment of property held in trust under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“Trustee” means a person authorized by law to act as trustee who is designated as trustee of a trust under this subtitle or successor to the person designated.</text>
  </level>
</section>
