The Trustees Handbook Second Edition

Designed to improve any board's effectiveness, this resource offers proven advice about what it takes to make everything from meetings to evaluations run smoothly and addresses the critical questions every board member needs to understand: What does it mean to be on a library board of trustees? The how-tos of amplifying your message through partnerships How does advocacy work and why is it important? Who makes library policy? Is there a more effective way to do strategic planning? Practical checklists, tables, and "what have you learned?" review items will help anyone maximize the experience of serving on a board. Trustees, administrators, consultants, trainers, and library students will welcome this hands-on, "bring it along and mark it up" reference.

Loring and Rounds: A Trustee's Handbook (2022) is an invaluable practical resource that addresses the rights, duties, and obligations of the parties once the trustee takes title to trust property. This Handbook steers you through this complex field, providing property owners with a mechanism for seeing to the needs of beneficiaries in cost-effective, creative, efficient, and flexible ways. Loring and Rounds: A Trustee's Handbook (2022) is a handy, ready reference, and a gateway to the treatises, restatements, law review articles, uniform statutes, and cases you need to know. This fully integrated and bound volume of the Handbook brings you up to date on the latest cases, statutes, and developments, as well as new or updated discussion of topics as follow: The Handbook continues the lengthy process of pruning some of the deadwood; significant exposition has been cut, revised, or combined. In sum, the Handbook is now even leaner, meaner, and more usable than ever. In addition, numerous new cases and secondary sources have been added. These include the following: In the 2022 Edition, there are 91 judicial-decision references and 186 footnotes that were not in the 2021 Edition. Forty pre-existing footnotes have been revised along with their accompanying texts. There has been a major across-the-board expansion, re-organization, renovation, consolidation, coordination, and updating of the content devoted to the intersection of trust law and constitutional (U.S.) law. We have, for example, opened up a whole new section devoted entirely to relevant taking and due process jurisprudence. See §5.3.1A and its sub-sections. The Handbook's treatment of the Domestic Asset Protection Trust (DAPT) has been beefed up and consolidated in §9.28. While the Handbook has had much to say about the equitable doctrine of unclean hands as it pertains to trustee conduct, there has been little on its applicability to beneficiary conduct. This oversight has been corrected. See §§ 5.5 & 7.1.9. All this, and much more is included in the 2022 Edition of the Handbook.

"This fifth edition includes more than 150 downloadable precedent minutes and resolutions. The precedents reflect day-to-day decisions that trustees make and matters that trustees need to take into consideration. As well as references to contemporary case law, the book includes comprehensive and practical checklists (also downloadable) to guide trustees as they go about the everyday business of being a trustee. Topics covered include: the practical implications of the Trusts Act 2019, default and mandatory decisions, ascertaining beneficiary needs, AML/CFT, FATCA and CRS , source of wealth considerations, factors to consider when deciding whether to accept appointment as a trustee, whether or not to act personally or through a corporate trustee, important set-up procedures for administration, decision making, how to exercise powers of investment, how to ratify decisions gifting considerations, how to retire as a trustee and important considerations about mental capacity."--Publisher information.

Provides guidance on what to consider before accepting an appointment as a trustee. Examines trustee liability, such as income tax and GST liability, mitigation of trustee liability, and liability for court costs. Presents information in a question and answer format, and references relevant case law.