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THE CHOCOLATE CHARITABLE REMAINDER UNITRUST
On this December 28, 2012, I, JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, a resident of the U.S. Virgin Islands (the
"Senior"), desiring to establish a charitable remainder unitrust within the meaning of § 4 of Rev.
Proc. 2005-52 and § 664(dX2) and (3) of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code"), hereby create the
Chocolate Charitable Remainder Unitrust and designate Darren K. Indyke and Erika A. Kellerhals as
the initial Trustees.
ARTICLE ONE. FUNDING OF TRUST
The Senior transfers to the Trustees the property described in Schedule A and the Trustees accept
such property and agree to hold, manage, and distribute such property of the Trust under the terms
set forth in this Trust instrument.
ARTICLE TWO. PAYMENT OF UNITRUST AMOUNT
2.1.
ANNUAL PAYMENT. In each taxable year of the Trust, the Trustees shall pay to Jeffrey E.
Epstein (the "Recipient") during the Recipient's life, a unitrust amount equal to the lesser of (a) the
Trust income for the taxable year, as defined in 26 U.S.C.A. § 643(b) and corresponding regulations;
and (b) 12% of the net fair market value of the assets of the Trust valued as of the first day of each
taxable year of the Trust (the "valuation date"). The unitrust amount for any year shall also include
any amount of Trust income for such year that is in excess of the amount required to be distributed
under (b) (above) to the extent that the aggregate of the amounts paid in prior years was less than the
aggregate of the amounts computed as 12 % of the net fair market value of the Trust assets on the
valuation dates.
2.2.
EXCESS INCOME. The unitrust amount shall be paid in annual installments. Any income of
the Trust for a taxable year in excess of the unitrust amount shall be added to principal. If for any
year the net fair market value of the Trust assets is incorrectly determined, then within a reasonable
period after the value is finally determined for federal tax purposes, the Trustees shall pay to the
Recipient (in the case of an undervaluation) or receive from the Recipient (in the case of an
overvaluation) an amount equal to the difference between the unitrust amount properly payable and
the unitrust amount actually paid.
ARTICLE THREE. PRORATION OF THE UNITRUST AMOUNT
In determining the unitrust amount, the Trustees shall prorate the same on a daily basis for a short
taxable year and for the taxable year ending with the Recipient's death.
ARTICLE FOUR. DISTRIBUTION TO CHARITY
Upon the death of the Recipient, the Trustees shall distribute all of the then principal and income of
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the Trust (other than any amount due the Recipient or the Recipient's estate under the provisions
above) to J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, Inc, a United States Virgin Islands not for profit
corporation a/k/a Enhanced Education (the "Charitable Organization"). If the Charitable
Organization is not an organization described in 26 U.S.C.A. §§ 170(c), 2055(a), and 2522(a) at the
time when any principal or income of the Trust is to be distributed to it, then the Trustees shall
distribute such principal or income to such one or more organizations described in §§ 170(c),
2055(a), and 2522(a) of the Code as the Trustees shall select in their sole discretion.
ARTICLE FIVE. ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
If any additional contributions are made to the Trust after the initial contribution, the unitrust amount
for the year in which the additional contribution is made shall be equal to the lesser of (a) the Trust
income for the taxable year, as defined in § 643(b) of the Code and the corresponding regulations;
and (b) 12% of the sum of (1) the net fair market value of the Trust assets as of the valuation date
(excluding the assets so added and any income from, or appreciation on, such assets); and (2) that
proportion of the fair market value of the assets so added that was excluded under (1) that the
number of days in the period that begins with the date of contribution and ends with the earlier of the
last day of the taxable year or the day of the Recipient's death bears to the number of days in the
period that begins on the first day of such taxable year and ends with the earlier of the last day in
such taxable year or the day of the Recipient's death. In the case where there is no valuation date
after the time of contribution, the assets so added shall be valued as of the time of contribution. The
unitrust amount for any such year shall also include any amount of Trust income for such year that is
in excess of the amount required to be distributed under (b) above to the extent that the aggregate of
the amounts paid in prior years was less than the aggregate of the amounts computed as 12% of the
net fair market value of the Trust assets on the valuation dates.
ARTICLE SIX. PROHIBITED TRANSACTIONS
The Trustees shall make distributions at such time and in such manner as not to subject the Trust to
tax under 26 U.S.C.A. § 4942. Except for the payment of the unitrust amount to the Recipient, the
Trustees shall not engage in any act of self-dealing, as defined in 26 U.S.C.A. § 4941(d), and shall
not make any taxable expenditures, as defined in 26 U.S.C.A. § 4945(d) The Trustees shall not
make any investments that jeopardize the charitable purpose of the Trust, within the meaning of 26
U.S.C.A. § 4944 and the corresponding regulations, or retain any excess business holdings, within
the meaning of 26 U.S.C.A. § 4943(c).
ARTICLE SEVEN. TRUSTEES
7.1.
NAMED TRUSTEES; SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES. There shall be two Trustees of the
Trust. The initial Trustees shall be Darren K. Indyke and Erika A. Kellerhals.
7.2.
SURETY BOND. No Trustee named in this instrument or successor Trustee shall be
required to provide surety or other security on a bond. lf, notwithstanding the foregoing
provision, a bond shall be required, no sureties shall be required on the bond.
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7.3.
DELEGATION. Any co-Trustee may delegate any powers and authorities to another co-
Trustee for any period that the delegating co-Trustee deems appropriate. A person dealing in
good faith with any co-Trustee may rely without inquiry upon that co-Trustee's representation
that a particular power or authority has been delegated and not rescinded.
7.4.
_RESIGNATION.
Any Trustee may resign by giving written notice specifying the
effective date of the resignation to the co-Trustee hereunder, or if no co-Trustee remains, to the
appointed successor Trustee hereunder, or if there is no person appointed as successor Trustee
hereunder who is able or willing to serve as successor Trustee, to the Settlor. In the event that an
initial or successor Trustee resigns or is unable or unwilling to serve as Trustee hereunder, and
no other person has been appointed as a successor hereunder, or if appointed, no person
appointed as a successor Trustee hereunder is able or willing to serve as Trustee hereunder, then
the Settlor may appoint a successor co-Trustee to act in the place of the Trustee that has resigned
or is unable or willing to serve as Trustee hereunder. Upon the incapacity or death of the Senior,
the remaining Trustee may appoint any person, firm or corporation as successor co-Trustee.
7.5.
REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEES. Any Trustee or co-Trustee may be
removed, with cause, by a court of proper jurisdiction. The title to the Trust Fund or the separate
trust assets shall automatically also vest in any Successor Trustees or Successor Trustee, as the
case may be. Subject to the foregoing appointment of a successor or replacement Trustee, the
Settlor authorizes any Trustee named in this Trust Agreement or appointed pursuant to this
Article to appoint, by an acknowledged written instrument, one or more successor Trustees
and/or, in the event of a vacancy, a co-Trustee. This power to appoint shall be a continuing
power that may be exercised any number of times and shall be exercised by unanimous vote.
The appointment of successors by the Trustees named herein shall take precedence over
appointments made by any other Trustees.
7.6.
SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES. No successor Trustee shall be obliged to examine the
accounts and actions of any previous Trustee. No successor Trustee shall be responsible in any
way for any acts or omissions of any previous Trustee.
7.7.
ACCOUNTING. The consent and approval of any accounting by any Trustee shall be
binding and conclusive. Any Trustee may at any time and from time to time render an account
of the Trustee's acts and transactions as such Trustee with respect to the income and principal of
any trust created hereunder (from the date of the creation of such trust or from the date of the last
previous account of the Trustee) to the Recipient. Such account may be rendered in any form
acceptable to the co-Trustee. The Trustee shall have the power and authority on behalf of all
persons interested in such trust, whether such interest relates to income or principal, to settle and
adjust such account. Such settlement shall be final and conclusive upon all persons so interested
in such trust and no Trustee shall be required to obtain judicial approval of such account so
settled. Upon such settlement, the Trustee who rendered such account shall be fully and
completely discharged and released from all further liability, responsibility and accountability for
or with respect to the Trustee's acts and transactions as set forth in such account. Nothing
herein, however, shall be construed as a limitation upon the right of the Trustee to seek judicial
settlement of the Trustee's account, whether or not such account is so settled.
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The Trustees shall not be required to file annual accounts with any court or court official in any
jurisdiction. In addition, pursuant to Section 1212, Title 15 of the Virgin Islands Code, the
Senior hereby relieves the Trustees and any Successor Trustee of the requirements imposed by
Chapter 59, Title 15 of the Virgin Islands Code, or any similar successor law respecting public
filings of inventories and accountings by Trustees. Furthermore, pursuant to Section 1107, Title
15, of the Virgin Islands Code, the Senior hereby relieves the Trustees, to the extent allowable,
from any and all duties, restrictions, and liabilities which would otherwise be imposed upon him
by Chapter 57, Title 15, Virgin Islands Code.
7.8.
NO COMPENSATION.
No Trustee serving hereunder shall be entitled to any
compensation for serving as Trustee hereunder; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that a Trustee shall
be entitled to be reimbursed for properly documented reasonable expenses incurred in connection
with the Trustee's actually acting as Trustee hereunder.
7.9.
UNANIMOUS CONSENT. In all matters pertaining to the administration of this Trust,
the unanimous consent of the co-Trustees or, in the event of a vacancy not yet filled, the consent
of the sole Trustee, shall be all that is required for the approval of any action or the exercise of
any power of appointment hereunder.
ARTICLE EIGHT. LIABILITY AND HOLD HARMLESS
8.1.
No Trustee shall be liable for any act or omission except for gross negligence, willful
malfeasance or bad faith.
8.2.
No Trustee shall be liable or responsible for the loss or depreciation of any security,
investment or other property which may be received, purchased, made or retained by such Trustee
in good faith in accordance with the provisions of this Trust, or with respect to any of the funds held
by such Trustee hereunder, or for any loss incurred in any enterprise undertaken or participated in
by such Trustee with respect to any of the funds held by such Trustee hereunder, or for any act, deed
or loss, no matter how incurred, arising from any matter with respect to any of such funds,
undertaken by such Trustee in good faith pursuant to the provisions of this Trust.
8.3.
No person dealing with any Trustee acting hereunder shall have any duty to inquire into the
propriety or validity of any action taken by any such Trustee, or be required to see to, or be liable
for, the application of any money paid or property transferred or delivered to any such Trustee.
8.4.
In addition to the powers granted by law, the Settlor grants to the Trustee and any successors
thereto and co-Trustees hereunder the power to retain, so long as they deem advisable, and to
acquire by purchase or otherwise, any kind of real property or personal property, including (without
limitation) common stocks, interests in investment companies and discretionary common trust
funds, undivided interests and secured and unsecured obligations -- all without diversification as to
kind or amount; to sell for cash or on credit (at public or private sale) lease and mortgage, any kind
of real or personal property; to distribute in kind or in money or partly in each, even if shares be
composed differently; to hold property in the names of nominees or so that it will pass on delivery,
and to leave property in the custody of a firm of stockbrokers and registered in the name of the
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stockbrokers' nominees; to engage and rely on investment counsel, accountants, appraisers and other
experts and legal counsel and to compensate them; to employ custodians of the assets and
bookkeepers and clerks and other assistants; and to borrow money for any purpose and continue any
debt of mine.
ARTICLE NINE. POWERS AND DUTIES OF TRUSTEES
Subject to the specific provisions of this Trust Agreement, including, without limitation, Articles
Six and Eleven hereof, a Trustee hereunder shall have all of the powers conferred upon him
under the laws of the United States Virgin Islands, as the same may be amended from time to
time, and the powers conferred by law upon fiduciaries in every jurisdiction in which such
Trustee may act. In addition, subject to the specific provisions of this Trust Agreement,
including, without limitation, Articles Six and Eleven hereof, the following powers are conferred
upon the Trustees, any co-Trustees and any successors thereto, exercisable in their absolute dis-
cretion, except to the extent that such acts undertaken by any Trustee, co-Trustee, or successor
Trustee would constitute self-dealing as defined in Internal Revenue Code section 4941, would
jeopardize the charitable purpose of the trust as defined in Internal Revenue Code section 4944
or result in a taxable expenditure as provided for in Internal Revenue Code section 4945:
9.1.
To retain any property, real or personal, which may at any time be in their hands, or to
sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of any such property on any terms, including the extension of
credit with or without security, they may determine to be advisable, and to lease or grant options
for any such property for any period of time.
9.2.
Any monies requiring investment may be invested in or upon any investment of whatever
nature and wherever situate whether producing income or not (including the purchase of any
immovable or movable property or any interest in such property) as the Trustees shall in their
absolute discretion think fit so that the Trustees shall have the same full and unrestricted powers
of making and changing investments of such monies as if they were absolutely and beneficially
entitled to such monies and without prejudice to the generality of the above the Trustees shall not
be under any obligation to diversify their investment of such monies.
9.3.
To purchase or otherwise acquire any property, real or personal, of any kind, without
limitation.
9.4.
To acquire and retain property without any duty to diversify, without being bound by any
provision of law restricting investments by fiduciaries, and whether or not the property is
productive of income.
9.5.
To retain all or any part of the assets of the Trust Fund (without regard to the proportion
that any one asset or class of assets may bear to the whole) in the form in which such assets were
received or acquired by the Trustees, except to the extent with which Trustees would be unable
to make the distributions required by this Trust;
9.6.
To buy and sell options, warrants, puts, calls or other rights to purchase or sell
(collectively called "options") relating to any security or securities, regardless of whether such
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security or securities are then held by the Trustees, and whether such options are purchased or
sold on a national securities exchange, and to exercise with respect to such options all powers
which an individual owner thereof could exercise, including, without limitation, the right to
allow the same to expire;
9.7.
With respect to oil, natural gas, minerals, and all other natural resources and rights to and
interests therein (together with all equipment pertaining thereto) including, without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, oil and gas royalties, leases, or other oil and gas interests of any
character, whether owned in fee, as lessee, lessor, licensee, concessionaire or otherwise, or alone
or jointly with others as partner, joint tenant, or joint venturer in any other noncorporate manner,
(a) to make oil, gas and mineral leases or subleases; (b) to pay delay rentals, lease bonuses,
royalties, overriding royalties, taxes, assessments, and all other charges; (c) to sell, lease,
exchange, mortgage, pledge or otherwise hypothecate any or all of such rights and interests; (d)
to surrender or abandon, with or without consideration, any or all of such rights and interests; (e)
to make farm-out, pooling, and unitization agreements; (f) to make reservations or impose
conditions on the transfer of any such rights or interests; (g) to employ the most advantageous
business form in which properly to exploit such rights and interests, whether as corporations,
partnerships, limited partnerships, mining partnerships, joint ventures, co- tenancies, or
otherwise exploit any and all such rights and interests; (h) to produce, process, sell or exchange
all products recovered through the exploitation of such rights and interests, and to enter into
contracts and agreements for or in respect of the installation or operation of absorption,
reprocessing or other processing plants; (i) to carry any or all such interests in the name or names
of a nominee or nominees; (j) to delegate, to the extent permitted by law, any or all of the powers
set forth herein to the operator of such property; and (k) to employ personnel, rent office space,
buy or lease office equipment, contract and pay for geological surveys and studies, procure
appraisals, and generally to conduct and engage in any and all activities incident to the foregoing
powers, with full power to borrow and pledge in order to finance such activities; together with
the power to allocate between principal and income any net proceeds received as consideration,
whether as royalties or otherwise, for the permanent severance from lands of oil, natural gas,
minerals, and all other natural resources;
9.8.
To hold all or any part of the assets of the Trust Fund in cash or in bank accounts without
the necessity of investing the same;
9.9.
To exercise in person or by proxy conversion, subscription, voting and other rights and
options; to participate in reorganizations, consolidations, mergers, liquidations or similar
transactions and to retain property received thereunder; to enter into voting trust agreements and
to appoint voting trustees; and to delegate discretionary powers in connection with any of the
above.
9.10. To hold securities in the names of nominees or in the names of banks, trust companies,
stock brokerage firms or their nominees, or in bearer form.
9.11. To employ and pay, as an administration expense, legal and investment advisers,
accountants, broken, custodians, bookkeepers, clerks and other agents and assistants, for
ordinary as well as extraordinary services, and to delegate to them discretionary powers.
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9.12. To make interim payments on account of commissions and legal fees, without bond or
court order.
9.13. To make or guarantee loans to any person with or without security.
9.14.
To borrow money for any purpose from any source and to pledge or mortgage property
as security for money borrowed.
9.15.
To extend, abandon, settle, compromise, modify, release or arbitrate any claim or
obligation.
9.16. To make distributions in cash or in kind or partly in each without the consent of any
beneficiary and to allocate property distributed in kind among the recipients without any
obligation to make proportionate distributions or to distribute to all recipients property having an
equivalent basis for income tax purposes.
9.17.
To delegate to any co-Trustee any power or discretion (including the power to sign
checks) acceptable to the co-Trustee; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no power shall be
delegated to any co-Trustee if doing so would defeat any of the intent and purposes of this Trust
Agreement.
9.18. To hold property of separate trusts in common investments or funds.
9.19. To operate, repair, alter, improve, develop, sell, exchange, grant options on or lease for
any period of time, insure, erect or demolish buildings on, partition or mortgage any real
property they may hold or in which they may hold an interest or participation and to do or omit
to do anything of any kind or nature with respect to any real property or any interest or
participation therein or any lease or mortgage thereon or option with respect thereto and the
management thereof as they may determine to be advisable, whether or not that act or omission
is hereinabove specifically mentioned and without being bound by restrictions that might
otherwise apply.
9.20. To retain any interest in, to invest in and to become a member of any partnership or joint
venture, to comply with all the terms and provisions thereof, and to take all actions with respect
to any partnership or joint venture as they may determine to be advisable.
9.21.
To abstain from filing any inventory or periodic account in any court.
9.22. To make any division or distribution required by this agreement.
9.23. To pay all costs of administration related to the duties of the Trustees and performance of
this Trust Agreement
9.24. To retain the property held in trust without liability for any decrease in value.
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9.25. The Trustees shall have power to engage the services of such investment adviser or
advisers as the Trustees may from time to time think fit ("the investment adviser") to advise the
Trustees in respect of the investment and reinvestment of the Trust Fund with power for the
Trustees without being liable for any consequential loss and to delegate to the investment adviser
the discretion to manage all or any part of the Trust Fund within the limits and for the period
stipulated by the Trustees and the Trustees shall settle the terms and condition for the
remuneration of the investment adviser and the reimbursement of the investment adviser's
expenses as the Trustees shall in their absolute discretion think fit and such remuneration and
expenses shall be paid by the Trustees from the Trust Fund. The Trustees shall not be bound to
inquire into nor be in any manner responsible for any changes in the legal status of the
investment adviser. The Trustees shall incur no liability for any action taken pursuant to or for
otherwise following the advice of the investment adviser however communicated.
9.26. After the termination of any trust hereunder, to exercise all the powers, authorities and
discretion herein conferred until the complete distribution of the property held hereunder.
9.27. To appoint a Trustee to act in another jurisdiction with respect to any portion of the Trust
Fund located in the other jurisdiction, confer upon the appointed Trustee all of the powers and
duties of the appointing Trustee, require that the appointed Trustee furnish security, and remove
any Trustee so appointed.
9.28. To resolve a dispute concerning the interpretation of this Trust or its administration by
mediation, arbitration, or other procedure for alternative dispute resolution.
ARTICLE TEN. ADDITIONAL POWERS
Subject in all events to the provisions of Articles 6 and 7 above:
10.1. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Trustees may determine, when there is
reasonable doubt or uncertainty as to the applicable law or the relevant facts, which receipts of
money or other assets should be credited to income or principal, and which disbursements,
commissions, assessments, fees, taxes, and other expenses should be charged to income or
principal.
10.2. The proceeds from the sale, redemption or other disposition, whether at a profit or loss,
and regardless of the tax treatment thereof, of any property constituting principal, including
mortgages and real estate acquired through foreclosure or otherwise, shall normally be dealt with
as principal, but the Trustees, except as otherwise provided herein, may allocate a portion of any
such proceeds to income if the property disposed of produced no income or substantially less
than the current rate of return on trust investments, or if the Trustees shall deem such action
advisable for any other reason.
10.3.
The Trustees may (but are not directed to) allocate receipts and disbursements between
income and principal in accordance with the laws of the United States Virgin Islands, as
amended and in effect from time to time.
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ARTICLE ELEVEN. LIMITATION ON POWERS
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article Seven through Ten above, none of the powers
accorded the Trustees shall be construed to enable the Senior, the Trustee, or any other person to
purchase, exchange or otherwise deal with or dispose of the principal or income of this Trust for
less than an adequate or full consideration in money or money's worth, or to enable the Senior,
any corporation, or other entity in which the Senior has a substantial interest, or the Trustees, to
borrow the principal of this Trust, directly or indirectly, without adequate interest or security.
Furthermore to the extent the exercise of a power granted to the Trustees by this Agreement
would cause the Trustees to be deemed to have engaged in self-dealing as defined in Code
section 4941, to have jeopardized the charitable purpose of the trust or to have incurred a taxable
expenditure, such power shall be deemed void and not available to the Trustees.
ARTICLE TWELVE. TAXABLE YEAR
The taxable year of the Trust shall be the calendar year.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN. GOVERNING LAW
The operation of the Trust shall be governed by the laws of the United States Virgin Islands.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN. LIMITED POWER OF AMENDMENT
The Trust is irrevocable. The Trustees, however, shall have the power, acting alone, to amend the
Trust in any manner required for the sole purpose of ensuring that the Trust qualifies and continues
to qualify as a charitable remainder unitrust within the meaning of § 664(d)(2) and (3) of the Code.
ARTICLE FIFTEEN. INVESTMENT OF TRUST ASSETS
Nothing in this Trust instrument shall be construed to restrict the Trustees from investing the Trust
assets in a manner that could result in the annual realization of a reasonable amount of income or
gain from the sale or disposition of Trust assets.
ARTICLE SIXTEEN. MISCELLANEOUS
16.1
DEFINITION OF TERMS.
Wherever appropriate in this Trust Agreement and unless
otherwise provided to the contrary herein, (1) the masculine, feminine and neuter genders shall be
deemed to include the others; (2) the singular shall be deemed to include the plural, and vice versa;
(3) reference to any fiduciary shall be deemed to include any successor, whether named herein or
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otherwise appointed; and (4) the term "Code" shall be construed to mean the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, as amended, or any subsequent Federal tax law, and references to specific Code sections
shall include the corresponding provisions of any subsequent Federal tax law.
16.2
VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION. It shall not be necessary to serve with process any minor
or incompetent in any judicial proceeding in connection with this Trust Agreement (including,
without limitation, proceedings involving any trust hereunder) in which any competent adult party to
such proceeding has the same interest as such minor or incompetent. Any non-judicial settlement of
the accounts of any Trustee, executed by all of the persons required to be served by law after taking
into consideration the provisions of this Article expressly waiving the requirement of service of
process on infants and incompetents, shall be binding on all persons having any interest under this
Trust Agreement (including all minors, unboms and incompetents).
16.3
CHANGE OF SITUS. The Trustees hereunder may, at anytime and from time to time as the
Trustees, in the Trustees' absolute discretion, deem advisable, for the benefit or security of any trust
or any portion thereof hereunder, remove (or decline to remove) all or part of the assets or the situs
of administration thereof from one jurisdiction to another jurisdiction and elect that the law of such
other jurisdiction thereafter govern the same to such extent as may be necessary and appropriate, and
thereupon the courts of such other jurisdiction shall have the power to effectuate the purposes of this
instrument to such extent. This power of removal shall be a continuing power which may be
exercised any number of times. The determination of the Trustees as to any such removal or change
of situs shall be conclusive and binding on all persons interested or claiming to be interested in any
trust hereunder.
16.4
ACCEPTANCE BY TRUSTEE. Each Trustee, co-Trustee and successor Trustee, by joining
in the execution of this Agreement, hereby signifies his or her acceptance of the trusts created
hereunder.
16.5
COURT AND CONTROL TEST. This Trust Agreement and the trust created by it shall, in
all respects and for all purposes, be governed and regulated by the laws of the Territory of the United
States Virgin Islands, as they now exist and may from time to time be enacted, amended, or
repealed.
All questions regarding the validity, construction and administration of this Trust
Agreement, or any of its provisions, and of this Trust shall be determined solely by the laws of the
U.S. Virgin Islands. THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE AND THE U.S.
VIRGIN
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ADMINISTRATION OF THIS TRUST. It is intended that this Trust shall be a U.S. domestic trust
as defined in Title 26, section 7701(a)(30) of the Code by virtue of meeting the court and control
test. As provided in Treas. Reg. section 301.7701-7(cX4)(D), if both a United States court and a
foreign court are able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of this Trust, the trust
meets the court test.
16.6
PERPETUITIES SAVINGS LIMITATION.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the trusts created hereunder shall terminate, if it is not previously terminated, one (1) day
prior to the expiration of the permissible period under the relevant application of the rule against
perpetuities, if any, and the Trustees shall pay the then remaining principal and undistributed income
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of such trust as provided in Article Four hereof, immediately prior to its termination under this
section.
DECLARED AND AGREED TO by each of the undersigned.
WITNESSES:
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ERIKA A. KELLERIIALS, Trustee
DARREN K. INDYKE, Trustee
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of such trust as provided in Article Four hereof, immediately prior to its termination under this
section.
DECLARED AND AGREED TO by each of the undersigned.
WITNESSES:
JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Settlor
DARREN K. INDYKE, Trustee
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of such trust as provided in Article Four hereof, immediately prior to its termination under this
section.
DECLARED AND AGREED TO by each of the undersigned.
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