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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Priority of Claims on an Estate - Unpaid Child Support [HB-261]
Prioritizing the payment of unpaid child support over certain other claims on an estate of a decedent with insufficient assets to pay all claims in full.
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Estates and Trusts - Fiduciaries - Attorney-Client Privilege [SB-135]
Clarifying that a communication between an attorney and a client that acts as a fiduciary is subject to the attorney-client privilege even if fiduciary funds are used to compensate the attorney for services rendered to the client.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Tax – Tax Sales – Revisions [HB-59]
Requiring that certain owner-occupied property be withheld from tax sale; authorizing a county or a municipal corporation to withhold from tax sale certain property designated for redevelopment purposes; establishing a maximum rate of redemption of 10% for owner occupied property sold at tax sale; prohibiting taxes, interest, and penalties accruing after the date of a tax sale from being included in a certain payment; altering the contents of certain statements required to be sent to an owner of property subject to tax sale; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Resignation of Trustee - Notice [SB-126]
Authorizing the trustee of a trust to resign under the Maryland Trust Act on 30 days' notice to qualified beneficiaries, the settlor, if living, all cotrustees, and any person that has a right to replace or appoint a successor to the resigning trustee.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Resignation of Trustee - Notice [HB-146]
Authorizing the trustee of a trust to resign under the Maryland Trust Act on 30 days' notice to qualified beneficiaries, the settlor, if living, all cotrustees, and any person that has a right to replace or appoint a successor to the resigning trustee.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland [SB-22]
Establishing the Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland to examine and analyze the efficiency, uniformity, and quality of fiduciary adjudication in Maryland and make recommendations; requiring the orphans' courts, circuit courts, registers of wills, and Administrative Office of the Courts to comply with certain requests of the Task Force; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and make recommendations on or before January 1, 2026.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Compensation of Guardians of Property and Trustees [SB-19]
Clarifying the commissions that a guardian of the property may charge; authorizing a trustee of a trust to charge compensation that is reasonable under the circumstances; and authorizing trustees who are financial institutions or members of the Maryland Bar to charge compensation that is reasonable under the circumstances and calculated in accordance with a schedule of rates filed with an appropriate agency.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Veterans Trust – Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard [HB-228]
Expanding the purposes of the Maryland Veterans Trust to include providing monetary and other assistance to members of the Maryland National Guard and their families; and authorizing the Maryland Veterans Trust to expend money from the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund to provide loans and grants to members of the Maryland National Guard and their families.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts [SB-12]
Adding to the conditions under which an individual who creates a trust may not be considered the settlor of that trust with regard to the individual's interest in the trust; and providing that a creditor may not attach, exercise, reach, or otherwise compel distribution of certain trust assets.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Priority of Claims on an Estate - Unpaid Child Support [SB-110]
Prioritizing the payment of unpaid child support over certain other claims on an estate of a decedent with insufficient assets to pay all claims in full.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts [HB-50]
Adding to the conditions under which an individual who creates a trust may not be considered the settlor of that trust with regard to the individual's interest in the trust; and providing that a creditor may not attach, exercise, reach, or otherwise compel distribution of certain trust assets.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Veterans Trust - Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard [SB-246]
Expanding the purposes of the Maryland Veterans Trust to include providing monetary and other assistance to members of the Maryland National Guard and their families; and authorizing the Maryland Veterans Trust to expend money from the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund to provide loans and grants to members of the Maryland National Guard and their families.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Maryland Trust Decanting Act - Notification and Document Transmittal [SB-158]
Specifying the manner in which notice regarding an exercise of the decanting power or the sending of a document under the Maryland Trust Decanting Act is required to be provided.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Maryland Trust Decanting Act - Notification and Document Transmittal [HB-88]
Specifying the manner in which notice regarding an exercise of the decanting power or the sending of a document under the Maryland Trust Decanting Act is required to be provided.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Compensation of Guardians of Property and Trustees [HB-27]
Clarifying the commissions that a guardian of the property may charge; authorizing a trustee of a trust to charge compensation that is reasonable under the circumstances; and authorizing trustees who are financial institutions or members of the Maryland Bar to charge compensation that is reasonable under the circumstances and calculated in accordance with a schedule of rates filed with an appropriate agency.