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How Long Can A Trust Last In Texas? Thankfully, that is all behind us. The new law sets the maximum trust period for 300 years. The 300- year period starts running on the effective date of the trust.

If there is no amendment clause in the Trust Deed, any amendment has to be done with the permission of a Civil Court. Once the Civil Court has allowed permission for amendment, it is not open on the part of the Income Tax Officer or any other person to challenge such amendment.

A court will allow a trust to be modified if you can show that the trust's main purpose is being inhibited in some way. A third way to change an irrevocable trust is by what is called ?decanting?. This means the trustee modifies the trust by moving assets from one trust to a new trust with different terms.

Irrevocable Trust Once the terms of the trust are laid out, they are set in stone and cannot be easily altered. The grantor could have control of the assets placed into an irrevocable trust if he is the designated trustee.

?A Restatement? is also an amendment, but of the whole trust instrument, not just of the handpicked parts of the trust, like in the ?Amendment? described above. So a Restatement would say ?I hereby take my entire trust named TRUST dated DATE and replace it with this whole new trust named TRUST dated TODAY'S DATE.?

The Texas legislature enacted a statutory provision allowing the decanting of irrevocable trusts in 2013. Many people believe that the creator of an irrevocable, called the ?settlor? in our state, cannot modify the terms of the trust in any material way.