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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="14-615" title_number="14" title_name="Trusts" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Maryland Trust Decanting Act">
  <text>An authorized fiduciary may not exercise the decanting power to modify a provision in a first trust instrument granting another person the power to remove or replace the authorized fiduciary unless:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>If the modification applies only to the person, the person holding the power consents to the modification in a signed record;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>The person holding the power and the qualified beneficiaries of the second trust consent to the modification in a signed record and the modification grants a substantially similar power to another person; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>A court approves the modification and the modification grants a substantially similar power to another person.</text>
  </level>
</section>
