(a) A trustee shall take reasonable steps to compel a former trustee or other person to deliver trust property to the trustee.
(b) Except as otherwise provided under the terms of the trust, the trustee shall take reasonable steps to redress a breach of trust known to the trustee to have been committed by a cotrustee or a former trustee.

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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 564-B:8-812

  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

(c) Except as otherwise provided under the terms of the trust, the trustee shall take reasonable steps to redress a breach of trust actually known to the trustee to have been committed by a trust advisor, a former trust advisor, a trust protector, or a former trust protector. This subsection does not impose upon a trustee who is an excluded fiduciary any duty to monitor, duty to advise, or duty to warn as described under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 564-B:12-1204.
(d) A person who receives a distribution from a trust is liable to return the distribution to the extent that a court subsequently determines that the person was not entitled to the distribution.