Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-B. Trusts § 1213. Protection of charitable interest

A. “Determinable charitable interest” means a charitable interest that is a right to a mandatory distribution currently, periodically, on the occurrence of a specified event or after the passage of a specified time period and that is unconditional or will be held solely for charitable purposes.

B. “Unconditional” means not subject to the occurrence of a specified event that is not certain to occur, other than a requirement in a trust instrument that a charitable organization be in existence or qualify under a particular provision of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 on the date of the distribution, if the charitable organization meets the requirement on the date of determination.

A. Diminish the determinable charitable interest;

B. Diminish the interest of an identified charitable organization that holds the determinable charitable interest;

C. Alter any charitable purpose stated in the first-trust instrument; or

D. Alter any condition or restriction related to the determinable charitable interest.

A. The Attorney General, after receiving notice under section 1207, does not object in a signed record delivered to the authorized fiduciary within the notice period;

B. The Attorney General consents in a signed record to the 2nd trust or trusts being administered under the law of another jurisdiction; or

C. The court approves the exercise of the decanting power.