---
urn: urn:us-la:rs:9:2090
citation: "R.S. 9:2090"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 9 › Code Preliminary Title › Code Book III › Code Title II › Chapter 1 › Part V › Subpart B"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 2001, number: 520, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
---

# Prudent administration

A. A trustee shall administer the trust as a prudent person would administer it. In satisfying this standard, the trustee shall exercise reasonable care and skill, considering the purposes, terms, distribution requirements, and other circumstances of the trust.

B. A trustee who has special skills or expertise, or has held himself out as having special skills or expertise, has a duty to use those special skills or expertise.