Grants to Trust Corporations, Non-Trust Corporations and the Public Trustee

• Author: Karen Nunez-Tesheira
• Pages: 310-323

310 / Probate Practice and Procedure

TRUST CORPORATIONS

All jurisdictions (save Jamaica)

A trust corporation includes the Public Trustee, a corporation appointed

by the Court in any particular case to be a trustee or a person authorised to

act as custodian/ trustee under the rules of the public trustee legislation of

the relevant Caribbean territories.1

Jamaica and The Bahamas2

A trust corporation is any corporation authorised to act as an executor of

the will of any deceased person or as administrator of the estate of any

deceased person or as a trustee of any settlement whether constituted by

being any instrument or otherwise.

GRANT TO TRUST CORPORATIONS3

All jurisdictions (save Jamaica)

A grant of representation may be made to a trust corporation acting alone

or jointly with another person.

In this regard a trust corporation may be:

(a) named as executor of a will, in which event a grant of probate

is issued to the trust corporation either solely or jointly with

any other person(s) named as executor(s);

(b) nominated to take a grant of letters of administration (with or

without will annexed) on behalf of the person(s) entitled

thereto;

(c) authorised by a duly registered power of attorney to act as

attorney of the persons entitled thereto.

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Grants to Trust Corporations,

Non-Trust Corporations and the

Public Trustee