Trustee duty to prevent waste: trustee must act to stop destructive or permanently injurious acts by a possessor. When a trust benefits several persons in succession and a beneficiary in possession commits or threatens acts destructive or permanently injurious to trust property, the trustee is obliged to take measures to prevent such acts, protecting the corpus for future beneficiaries.
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Trustee duty to prevent waste: trustee must act to stop destructive or permanently injurious acts by a possessor.
When a trust benefits several persons in succession and a beneficiary in possession commits or threatens acts destructive or permanently injurious to trust property, the trustee is obliged to take measures to prevent such acts, protecting the corpus for future beneficiaries.
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