If you are a beneficiary of a trust and you ask a trustee to do something that is not right, the court can get involved. The court can make a decision to protect the trustee if they think it is fair. This means the trustee might not have to pay for any mistakes they made, and instead you might have to pay from your share of the trust property, you can find more information about this by looking at the Trustee Act 1956.
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This section applies if a trustee commits a breach of trust at the instigation or request or with the written consent of a beneficiary.
The court may, if it considers it appropriate, make an order indemnifying the trustee out of the beneficiary’s interest in the trust property.
