§ 19

Renunciation, Resignation, Death, or Removal of Custodian; Designation of Successor Custodian. (a) A person nominated under Section 4 or designated under Section 6 or Section 10 as custodian may decline to serve by delivering a valid disclaimer to the person who made the nomination or designation or to the transferor or the transferor's representative. If the event giving rise to a transfer has not occurred and no substitute custodian able, willing, and eligible to serve was nominated under Section 4, the person who made the nomination or designation may nominate a substitute custodian; otherwise the transferor or the transferor's representative shall designate a substitute custodian at the time of the transfer in either case from among the persons eligible to serve as custodian for that kind of property under Section 10(a). The custodian so designated has the rights of a successor custodian. (b) At any time or times a transferor or his representative may designate an adult or a trust company as successor custodian, single or successive, by executing and dating an instrument of designation and delivering it to the custodian or if he is deceased or is a person with a disability to his representative. A custodian at any time when a vacancy would otherwise occur may designate a trust company or an adult as successor custodian by executing and dating an instrument of designation. If an instrument of designation does not contain or is not accompanied by the resignation of the custodian, the designation of the successor does not take effect until the custodian resigns, dies, becomes a person with a disability, or is removed. If a transferor or a custodian has executed more than one instrument of designation, the instrument dated on the earlier date shall be treated as revoked by the instrument dated on the later date; however, a designation by a transferor or his representative shall not be revoked by a custodian. A successor custodian has all the powers, duties and immunities of a custodian designated in a manner prescribed by this Act. (c) A custodian may resign at any time by delivering written notice to the minor if the minor has attained the age of 14 years and to the successor custodian and by delivering the custodial property to the successor custodian. (d) If a custodian is ineligible, dies, or becomes a person with a disability and no successor has been effectively designated and the minor has attained the age of 14 years, the minor may designate as successor custodian, in the manner prescribed in subsection (b), an adult member of the minor's family, a guardian of the minor, or a trust company. If the minor has not attained the age of 14 years or fails to act within 60 days after the ineligibility, death, or incapacity, the guardian of the minor becomes successor custodian. If the minor has no guardian or the guardian declines to act, the transferor, the representative of the transferor or of the custodian, an adult member of the minor's family, or any other interested person may petition the court to designate a successor custodian. (e) A custodian who declines to serve under subsection (a) or resigns under subsection (c), or the representative of a deceased custodian or a custodian with a disability, as soon as practicable, shall put the custodial property and records in the possession and control of the successor custodian. The successor custodian by action may enforce the obligations to deliver custodial property and records and becomes responsible for each item as received. (f) A transferor, the representative of a transferor, an adult member of the minor's family, a guardian of the person of the minor, the guardian of the minor, or the minor if the minor has attained the age of 14 years may petition the court to remove the custodian for cause and to designate a successor custodian not inconsistent with an effective designation or to require the custodian to give appropriate bond.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)