Massachusetts General Laws ch. 203E sec. 111 – Non-judicial settlement agreements
Section 111. Non-judicial settlement agreements
Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws ch. 203E sec. 111
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(a) For purposes of this section, ”interested persons” shall mean persons whose consent would be required in order to achieve a binding settlement were the settlement to be approved by the court.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), interested persons may enter into a binding non-judicial settlement agreement with respect to any matter involving a trust.
(c) A non-judicial settlement agreement shall be valid only to the extent it does not violate a material purpose of the trust and includes terms and conditions that could be properly approved by the court under this chapter or other applicable law.
(d) Matters that may be resolved by a non-judicial settlement agreement shall include:
(1) the interpretation or construction of the terms of a trust;
(2) the approval of a trustee‘s report or accounting;
(3) direction to a trustee to refrain from performing a particular act or the grant to a trustee of any necessary or desirable power;
(4) the resignation or appointment of a trustee and the determination of a trustee’s compensation;
(5) transfer of a trust’s principal place of administration; and
(6) liability of a trustee for an action relating to the trust.
(e) Any interested person may request that the court approve a non-judicial settlement agreement to determine whether the representation, as provided in article 3, was adequate and to determine whether the agreement contains terms and conditions the court could have properly approved.