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North Dakota Trust Administration

North Dakota trust administration under the Uniform Trust Code: 60-day notices, annual reports, creditor exposure and final distribution.

By Settled Editorial

North Dakota trust administration is the work a successor trustee does after the person who made a living trust dies. Two 60-day clocks start under NDCC 59-16-13(2): one to tell the qualified beneficiaries you accepted the job, one to tell them the trust is now irrevocable. No court opens a file unless someone asks it to.

The rules sit in chapters 59-09 through 59-19 of the North Dakota Century Code, the North Dakota Uniform Trust Code, enacted in 2007 by House Bill 1034 (S.L. 2007, ch. 549). A 2017 act, House Bill 1228 (S.L. 2017, ch. 416), added chapters on trust contests, decanting, directed trusts and unitrusts. Read this beside how revocable trusts work for the settlor's side of the plan.

A note on the links. Every rule below was read on September 28, 2026 in the chapter text the North Dakota Legislative Council publishes at ndlegis.gov, which states that all changes approved by the 69th Legislative Assembly in 2025 are reflected. Each link opens the chapter at the section cited. This page is general information about North Dakota law, so check your own trust document against each section it cites.

Start With the Trust Document

The document comes first. NDCC 59-09-05(1) says title 59 governs a trustee's duties and powers except as otherwise provided in the terms of the trust. Section 59-09-05(2) then lists what the trust terms cannot override:

  • the requirements for creating a trust
  • the duty to act in good faith and in accordance with the purposes of the trust
  • the requirement that the trust exist for its beneficiaries and have a lawful, possible purpose
  • the court's power to modify or terminate a trust under 59-12-10 through 59-12-16
  • the effect of a spendthrift provision and the rights of certain creditors under chapter 59-13
  • the court's control over a bond under 59-15-02
  • the court's power under 59-15-08(2) to adjust compensation the trust sets unreasonably low or high
  • the effect of an exculpatory term under 59-18-08
  • the rights of outsiders who deal with the trustee under 59-18-10 through 59-18-13
  • the periods of limitation for starting a judicial proceeding
  • the court's power to act in the interests of justice, and its jurisdiction and venue under 59-10-04

The duty to inform and report is not on that list. So the trust document can change what 59-16-13 asks of you. Many documents say nothing on the point. If yours is silent, every duty below applies.

One date limit also matters for older trusts. Under 59-16-13(2)(h), the two 60-day notices do not apply to a trustee who accepted before August 1, 2007, to an irrevocable trust created before that date, or to a revocable trust that became irrevocable before it.

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While the Settlor Was Alive, You Answered Only to the Settlor

Here is why the job changes at death. NDCC 59-14-03(1) says that while a trust is revocable, the beneficiaries' rights are subject to the settlor's control and the trustee's duties are owed only to the settlor. Section 59-16-13(1) repeats that for the duty to inform and report, with one North Dakota addition: a qualified beneficiary who must give the information to qualify, or stay qualified, for public benefits under title 50 is also owed it.

NDCC 59-14-02(1) makes a trust revocable unless its terms expressly say it is irrevocable, for instruments signed on or after August 1, 2007. Once the settlor dies, the trust becomes irrevocable, and NDCC 59-09-03(11) defines "irrevocable" to include a formerly revocable trust that became irrevocable by the settlor's death. From then on, you owe the beneficiaries directly.

Who Counts as a Qualified Beneficiary

Most notices go to "qualified beneficiaries," so pin down that list first. NDCC 59-09-03(16) defines a qualified beneficiary as someone who, on the date it is measured:

  • is a permissible distributee of trust income or principal
  • would be one if the current distributees' interests ended that day without ending the trust
  • would be one if the trust ended that day

The definition leaves out a contingent beneficiary whose interest is not reasonably expected to vest. In a typical family trust, that means the people receiving distributions now plus the next people in line. A permissible distributee, under 59-09-03(13), is anyone currently eligible for distributions, whether mandatory or discretionary.

Accepting the Job, or Looking Before You Commit

NDCC 59-15-01 sets out how you accept. You accept by following the method the trust names or, if it names none or does not make its method exclusive, by accepting delivery of the trust property, exercising powers, performing duties or otherwise showing that you accept. A named trustee who does not accept within a reasonable time after learning of the designation is deemed to have declined.

You can act before deciding. Under 59-15-01(3), a named trustee may act to preserve the trust property, and may inspect or investigate it for environmental or other liability, without accepting, as long as you send a written declination within a reasonable time after acting. After the settlor's death, that declination goes to a qualified beneficiary.

If nobody named in the document will serve, NDCC 59-15-04(3) fills the seat in this order for a private trust: the person the trust designates or appoints under its terms, then a person the qualified beneficiaries choose unanimously, then a person the court appoints.

North Dakota's version of this section adds a third subsection. NDCC 59-15-07(3) vests title to all trust property in the successor trustee without any conveyance, transfer or assignment from the prior trustee. You still need paperwork to show a bank you hold the job, and the certification of trust covers that below.

Your Notice Clock, Step by Step

Let's break it down. Section 59-16-13(2) sets these duties once the trust is irrevocable:

  1. Within 60 days after you accept: notify the qualified beneficiaries that you accepted, and give your name, address and telephone number (59-16-13(2)(c)).
  2. Within 60 days after you learn the trust became irrevocable: notify the qualified beneficiaries that the trust exists, who the settlor was, that they have a right to request a copy of the trust instrument, and that they have a right to the trustee's report (59-16-13(2)(d)).
  3. Promptly, on written request: furnish a qualified beneficiary a copy of the part of the trust instrument that relates to that beneficiary's interest (59-16-13(2)(b)).
  4. Whenever it changes: notify the qualified beneficiaries of any change in the method or rate of your compensation (59-16-13(2)(e)).
  5. At all times: keep the qualified beneficiaries reasonably informed about the administration and the material facts they need to protect their interests, and respond promptly to a beneficiary's request for information unless that is unreasonable (59-16-13(2)(a)).

When you are both the successor trustee and the one who learns of the death, the two 60-day clocks usually start close together, and one letter can satisfy both. North Dakota's statute does not prescribe a form.

How to send it matters less than making sure it arrives. NDCC 59-09-09(1) accepts first-class mail, personal delivery, delivery to the last-known home or business, or a properly directed electronic message, so long as the method is reasonably suitable and likely to result in receipt. You need not notify someone whose identity or location you cannot reasonably find (59-09-09(2)), and anyone can waive a notice (59-09-09(3)).

The Annual Report North Dakota Requires

Section 59-16-13(2)(f) requires a report at least annually and at the termination of the trust. It goes to the distributees and permissible distributees of trust income or principal automatically, and to any other qualified beneficiary who asks. The report covers:

  • trust property and liabilities
  • receipts and disbursements
  • the source and amount of your compensation
  • a list of the trust assets and, if feasible, their market values

A beneficiary may waive the report or any other information, and may withdraw that waiver for future reports, under 59-16-13(2)(g). When a trusteeship falls vacant and no cotrustee remains, the former trustee sends the qualified beneficiaries a report. A personal representative, conservator or guardian may send it for a trustee who died or lost capacity.

The report does more than satisfy a duty. It also starts the one-year clock on breach claims, covered next.

How Long a Beneficiary Has to Sue You

NDCC 59-18-05 sets two limits.

  • One year after the beneficiary, or the beneficiary's representative, was sent a report that adequately disclosed a potential claim for breach of trust and told the beneficiary, in the report or a separate notice sent with it, how long the beneficiary has to sue (59-18-05(1)). A report discloses a claim adequately if it gives enough information that the beneficiary knows of it or should have asked (59-18-05(2)).
  • Five years otherwise, measured from the first of your removal, resignation or death, the end of the beneficiary's interest, or the end of the trust (59-18-05(3)).

That gap between one year and five is a reason to send full, candid reports with the time-limit language included. The period of limitation is on the list of rules the trust terms cannot change.

A Contest Window You Can Shorten

A trust contest is separate from a breach claim. NDCC 59-10.1-01 lets a person challenging the validity of a trust instrument or amendment ask the court for a declaratory judgment of invalidity. NDCC 59-10.1-03 bars that proceeding after the earliest of:

  1. 120 days after the trustee notified the person of the trust's existence or amendment, if the notice included the trustee's name and address, a copy of the trust instrument with any amendments, and the time allowed to sue
  2. three years after the settlor's death
  3. for a trust that was revocable just before death and that the settlor's last will named by reference, the time allowed under state law to petition for review of the will
  4. the date the person's right to contest was cut off by a court ruling, consent or another limit

So the trustee controls the shortest clock. Sending a full copy of the trust with the 120-day warning starts it. Under 59-10.1-03(1), a trustee has no liability to a third party for choosing not to send that notice, and the notice is presumed received once delivered to the person's last known address.

Creditors, Allowances and Medicaid Recovery

A living trust avoids probate. It does not wall the property off from the settlor's debts. NDCC 59-13-05(1) says that after the settlor's death, the property of a trust that was revocable immediately before death is subject to:

  • claims of the settlor's creditors
  • costs of administering the settlor's estate
  • funeral and burial expenses
  • statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children, which for this section include the homestead exemption under chapter 47-18 and the allowances in title 30.1

That exposure reaches the trust only to the extent the probate estate is inadequate, and the settlor may direct which property pays first. The rule applies whether or not the trust has a spendthrift clause. See the guide to creditors of the settlor for how claims are presented against the estate and the order in which they are paid.

Compare the rule for a transfer on death deed. NDCC 30.1-32.1-12 lets an estate that cannot pay an allowed claim or a statutory allowance enforce it against property that passed by the North Dakota transfer on death deed, and that section sets its own deadline: 18 months after the death. Section 59-13-05 contains no deadline of its own, so do not borrow the deed's 18 months for trust property.

Medicaid recovery runs through the same door. NDCC 50-24.1-07(1) gives the Department of Health and Human Services a preferred claim against the estate of a recipient who was 55 or older when the help was paid, or who was permanently institutionalized. The claim waits while a surviving spouse is alive or while a child is under 21 or is blind or permanently and totally disabled (50-24.1-07(2)(a)). Because it is a claim against the estate, 59-13-05 is the route by which it can reach revocable trust property when the probate estate falls short. If the settlor received Medicaid, talk with the personal representative before you distribute. The executor duties guide covers the personal representative's duty to send HHS the probate petition.

How the Duties Work Day to Day

Chapter 59-16 lists the working duties. The ones a successor trustee meets first:

  • Administer in good faith under the trust's terms and purposes and chapters 59-09 through 59-19 (NDCC 59-16-01).
  • Loyalty. Administer the trust solely in the beneficiaries' interests. A deal for your own account, or one affected by a conflict between your personal and fiduciary interests, is voidable by an affected beneficiary unless an exception applies, such as authorization in the trust terms, court approval or the beneficiary's informed consent (NDCC 59-16-02). Deals with your spouse, descendants, siblings, parents, or your agent or attorney are presumed to involve a conflict.
  • Impartiality among beneficiaries in investing, managing and distributing (NDCC 59-16-03).
  • Prudence. Act as a prudent person would, with reasonable care, skill and caution (NDCC 59-16-04), and incur only reasonable costs (NDCC 59-16-05).
  • Take control of and protect the property (NDCC 59-16-09), and take reasonable steps to recover property a former trustee or anyone else holds (NDCC 59-16-12).
  • Keep records and keep trust property separate from your own, with the trust's interest shown in records kept by someone other than you or a beneficiary where feasible (NDCC 59-16-10).
  • Enforce and defend claims of and against the trust (NDCC 59-16-11).
  • Delegate with care. You may hand off tasks a prudent trustee could delegate, but you must choose the agent carefully, set the scope and review the agent's work (NDCC 59-16-07).

For powers, NDCC 59-16-15 lets you act without court authorization using the powers the trust grants and, unless the trust limits them, all the powers an unmarried, competent owner has over individually owned property. Every exercise of a power stays subject to the duties above.

One section number to skip: 59-16-08, "Powers to direct," still appears in the chapter's section table, but its text is a repeal note (repealed by S.L. 2017, ch. 416). Chapter 59-16.2 now covers directed trusts, as explained below.

A trustee's access to online accounts

North Dakota adopted the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act as chapter 47-36. When the trust owns an account and you are not the original user, a custodian must give you a catalog of communications and other digital assets on a written request, a certified copy of the trust instrument or a certification of trust under 59-18-13, your certification under penalty of perjury that the trust exists and you are the acting trustee, and account identifiers if the custodian asks (NDCC 47-36-12). The content of messages takes the same items plus the trust's consent to disclosure of content (NDCC 47-36-11). See digital assets held in trust for the rest of the chapter.

Investing: The Prudent Investor Rule

Chapter 59-17 is North Dakota's prudent investor rule. NDCC 59-17-01 makes it a default rule the trust may expand, restrict or eliminate, and shields a trustee who reasonably relied on the trust's terms. Three duties matter most at the start:

  • Review the portfolio early. Within a reasonable time after accepting or receiving assets, review them and decide what to keep and what to sell, to bring the portfolio in line with the trust's purposes and terms (NDCC 59-17-04).
  • Judge the portfolio as a whole. Decisions about one asset are measured against the whole portfolio and an overall strategy with risk and return objectives suited to the trust. The factors you weigh include taxes, inflation, liquidity needs, the beneficiaries' other resources and an asset's special value to the trust or a beneficiary (NDCC 59-17-02).
  • Diversify unless special circumstances mean the trust's purposes are better served without it (NDCC 59-17-03).

The diversification exception can matter for a family farm or a closely held business the settlor wanted kept. Look for trust language that tells you to hold it, because 59-17-01(2) protects reasonable reliance on that language.

Principal and income

Chapter 59-04.2, North Dakota's Uniform Principal and Income Act, sorts receipts and expenses between income beneficiaries and remainder beneficiaries. At death, NDCC 59-04.2-07 sends a periodic payment due before the death to principal and one due on or after it to income, and splits a nonperiodic item day by day. NDCC 59-04.2-03 lets a trustee who invests as a prudent investor adjust between principal and income when the income-based terms would otherwise treat the beneficiaries unfairly.

A second route is conversion. Chapter 59-16.3 lets a trustee who is not an interested trustee convert an income trust to a total return unitrust without a court, by adopting a written policy and sending notice to the settlor if living, the current income beneficiaries, the remainder beneficiaries and any adviser or protector. The change can proceed only if nobody objects in writing within 60 days of receiving notice (NDCC 59-16.3-02).

Advisors, Protectors and Decanting

Some trusts split the trustee's job. Chapter 59-16.2 lets the trust instrument name an investment trust advisor, a distribution trust advisor or a trust protector. Unless the instrument says otherwise, an investment trust advisor can direct the trustee on buying, selling and holding trust property and on voting (NDCC 59-16.2-03). The trustee who takes that direction, called an excluded fiduciary, must follow it, has no duty to monitor the advisor unless the instrument says so, and is not liable for losses from following it except for willful misconduct (NDCC 59-16.2-07).

Decanting moves principal from one trust into a new one with different terms. Chapter 59-16.1 lets an authorized trustee do this without a court, but the exercise must be in a written instrument that is signed, dated and acknowledged, copies go to every person interested in the old trust and anyone who can remove the trustee, and it takes effect 60 days after that notice unless everyone entitled to notice agrees in writing to an earlier date. A written objection within that window sends the question to court (NDCC 59-16.1-12).

Settling Questions Without a Court

NDCC 59-09-11 lets the trustee and the people whose consent a court would need sign a binding nonjudicial settlement agreement on any trust matter, as long as it does not violate a material purpose of the trust and a court could have approved the same terms. The statute lists matters it can resolve, including:

  • what the trust terms mean
  • approval of a trustee's report or accounting
  • appointment or resignation of a trustee, and the trustee's compensation
  • moving the trust's place of administration
  • the trustee's liability for an action
  • the extent of a bond, or waiving it

A spendthrift provision is presumed to be a material purpose. Any party can ask the court to approve the agreement.

A signed consent can also protect you. Under NDCC 59-18-09, a beneficiary who consented to your conduct, released you or ratified a transaction cannot later hold you liable for it, unless you induced the consent by improper conduct or the beneficiary lacked capacity or did not know the relevant rights and facts.

What You Get Paid, and What You Can Be Charged

If the trust is silent, NDCC 59-15-08(1) entitles you to compensation that is reasonable under the circumstances. North Dakota sets no percentage or fee schedule for trustees. If the trust names a fee, you receive that fee, but under 59-15-08(2) the court may allow more or less if your duties turned out far different from what the settlor expected or the named fee is unreasonably low or high.

NDCC 59-15-09 lets you recover expenses properly incurred in administering the trust out of trust property, with interest as appropriate, and gives you a lien against trust property for money you advance to protect it.

A bond is the exception. NDCC 59-15-02 requires one only if the court finds it is needed to protect the beneficiaries, or the trust requires one and the court has not waived it. A bank or trust company qualified to act as trustee in North Dakota never has to post one.

Leaving the Job

You can resign on at least 30 days' notice to the settlor if living, every cotrustee and the qualified beneficiaries, or with court approval (NDCC 59-15-05). Resigning does not end your liability for what you already did.

The court can remove a trustee on request of the settlor, a cotrustee or a beneficiary, or on its own. Under NDCC 59-15-06(2), grounds include a serious breach of trust, cotrustees who cannot cooperate, and unfitness, unwillingness or persistent failure to administer the trust well. Removal is also available after a major change in circumstances or all qualified beneficiaries ask, if the court finds removal serves all beneficiaries, does not undercut a material purpose of the trust, and a suitable successor is available.

A departing trustee keeps the duties of a trustee and the powers needed to protect the property until it is delivered, and must deliver it promptly (NDCC 59-15-07).

Proving Your Authority to Banks and Title Companies

Banks and title companies usually ask to see your authority before they retitle an account or close on a sale. NDCC 59-18-13 lets you give them a certification of trust in place of the full document. It states that the trust exists and its date, the trust's name, each settlor, your name and address as acting trustee, your powers, whether the trust is revocable and who can revoke it, and how cotrustees sign. It must also state that the trust has not been revoked or amended in a way that makes the certification wrong. It does not need the dispositive terms.

A recipient may ask for excerpts that name you as trustee and give you the power for the deal at hand. Anyone who relies on the certification without knowing it is wrong is protected, and a person who demands the whole trust instrument anyway can owe damages if a court finds the demand was not made in good faith. Separately, NDCC 59-18-12 protects a person who deals with a trustee in good faith and for value, and says that person need not inquire into the extent of your powers.

Taxes on the Trust

A trust that is required to file a federal Form 1041 also files a North Dakota return. The Office of State Tax Commissioner says a fiduciary for a resident trust or estate must file Form 38, the Fiduciary Income Tax Return, if the fiduciary must file the federal Form 1041. A nonresident trust files Form 38 when it must file Form 1041 and received income from North Dakota sources. The North Dakota return is due April 15, and a federal extension for Form 1041 automatically extends Form 38. A trust with 10 or more beneficiaries must file and pay electronically.

Estate tax is a separate question. The Tax Commissioner's estate tax page says North Dakota still has an estate tax law, but no estate taxes are paid to North Dakota for deaths occurring after January 1, 2005. The same page says a Form 54-91 North Dakota Estate Tax Return is still required for every estate that must file a federal estate tax return, due 15 months after the death. The North Dakota estate tax guide covers the federal side.

Wrapping Up and Distributing

When the trust ends, or a share of it ends, NDCC 59-16-17 sets the steps:

  1. Send a proposal for distribution to the beneficiaries (and to the attorney general for a charitable trust). If the proposal tells them of their right to object and the time allowed, anyone who does not object within 30 days after it was sent loses the right to object to that distribution (59-16-17(1)).
  2. Distribute promptly to the people entitled to the property, keeping a reasonable reserve for debts, expenses and taxes (59-16-17(2)).
  3. Send the final report. Section 59-16-13(2)(f) requires a report at termination.
  4. Get releases the right way. Under 59-16-17(3), a beneficiary's release of the trustee is invalid to the extent you induced it by improper conduct, or the beneficiary did not know the relevant rights or facts at the time.

Before you distribute, check that the creditor exposure under 59-13-05 has run its course and that any Medicaid claim is resolved, since distributing too soon can leave you answering for it.

When a North Dakota Court Gets Involved

Most trusts are settled without a court. NDCC 59-10-01 says the court may intervene when an interested person invokes its jurisdiction, a trust is not under continuing judicial supervision unless the court orders it, and a proceeding can cover any matter in the trust's administration, including a request for instructions or an action to declare rights. NDCC 59-10-04 puts venue in the county where the trust's principal place of administration is or will be. For a trust with no trustee, venue for appointing one lies where a beneficiary lives or trust property sits.

Assets the Trust Never Got

A living trust controls only what the settlor put into it. An account or a parcel still in the settlor's own name when they died may need probate or a small-estate affidavit to reach the trust through a pour-over will. The North Dakota probate guide covers that path, and how to avoid probate in North Dakota shows the other transfer tools that sit beside a trust.

When to Call a North Dakota Attorney

Bring in a North Dakota attorney when a beneficiary threatens a contest or a breach claim, when creditor or Medicaid claims could exceed the probate estate, when the trust holds a farm or business you are unsure whether to keep, or when you are thinking about decanting or a unitrust conversion. A lawyer can also draft the 120-day contest notice and the report language that start the shorter clocks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is the North Dakota Uniform Trust Code?

Chapters 59-09 through 59-19 of the North Dakota Century Code. The Legislature enacted them in 2007 through House Bill 1034 (S.L. 2007, ch. 549). House Bill 1228 in 2017 (S.L. 2017, ch. 416) added four neighboring chapters: 59-10.1 on contesting a trust, 59-16.1 on decanting, 59-16.2 on directed trusts and trust advisors, and 59-16.3 on total return unitrusts. Principal and income rules sit in chapter 59-04.2 and investing rules in chapter 59-17.

What are the deadlines for a North Dakota successor trustee?

Two 60-day notices come first. NDCC 59-16-13(2)(c) gives you 60 days after accepting the trusteeship to tell the qualified beneficiaries you accepted and to give your name, address and telephone number. NDCC 59-16-13(2)(d) gives you 60 days after you learn that a formerly revocable trust became irrevocable to tell them the trust exists, who the settlor was, that they can ask for a copy of the trust instrument, and that they have a right to the trustee's report.

Does a North Dakota trustee have to send an annual report?

Yes, to the current beneficiaries, without being asked. NDCC 59-16-13(2)(f) says the trustee shall send a report at least annually and at the termination of the trust to the distributees and permissible distributees of trust income or principal, and to other qualified beneficiaries who request it. The report covers trust property, liabilities, receipts and disbursements, the source and amount of your compensation, and a list of the trust assets with market values if feasible. A beneficiary can waive the report under 59-16-13(2)(g) and can later withdraw that waiver.

Can the trust document change these North Dakota notice duties?

NDCC 59-09-05(1) makes the trust terms control a trustee's duties and powers, and 59-09-05(2) lists the rules the terms cannot override. The duty to inform and report in 59-16-13 is not on that list. The list does include the duty to act in good faith and in accordance with the trust's purposes, the court's control over a bond and over unreasonable compensation, the limits on exculpatory terms and the periods of limitation for suing. Read your trust document before you build a notice schedule.

How long does a North Dakota beneficiary have to sue a trustee?

One year from a report that discloses the problem, or five years otherwise. NDCC 59-18-05(1) bars a proceeding for breach of trust more than one year after the beneficiary was sent a report that adequately disclosed a potential claim and told the beneficiary, in the report or a separate notice with it, the time allowed to sue. Where that does not apply, 59-18-05(3) allows five years from the first of the trustee's removal, resignation or death, the end of the beneficiary's interest, or the end of the trust.

How long does someone have to contest a North Dakota living trust?

Under NDCC 59-10.1-03, the earliest of four dates: 120 days after the trustee sent the person notice of the trust's existence with the trustee's name and address, a copy of the trust instrument and any amendments, and the time allowed to sue; three years after the settlor's death; for a trust that was revocable just before death and that the settlor's last will named by reference, the time allowed to challenge the will; or the date the person's right to contest was cut off by a court ruling, consent or another limit.

Can creditors of the settlor reach a North Dakota trust after death?

Yes, once the probate estate runs short. NDCC 59-13-05(1) makes the property of a trust that was revocable immediately before the settlor's death subject to the settlor's creditors, the costs of administering the estate, funeral expenses and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children, to the extent the probate estate cannot cover them. For this purpose statutory allowances include the homestead exemption under chapter 47-18 and the allowances in title 30.1. The settlor can direct which property pays first.

Does a North Dakota trust have to be filed with a court?

No. NDCC 59-10-01(2) says a trust is not subject to continuing judicial supervision unless the court orders it. The district court steps in only when an interested person invokes its jurisdiction, and a proceeding can cover any matter in the trust's administration, including a request for instructions and an action to declare rights, under 59-10-01(1) and (3).

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