14.__Claims against trust.__Pay or contest any claim, settle a claim by or against the trust and release, in whole or in part, a claim belonging to the trust;

15.__Pay expenses of administration.__Pay taxes, assessments, compensation of the trustee and of employees and agents of the trust and other expenses incurred in the administration of the trust;

16.__Taxes.__Exercise elections with respect to federal, state and local taxes;

17.__Trustee compensation and benefits.__Select a mode of payment under any employee benefit or retirement plan, annuity or life insurance payable to the trustee; exercise rights under those instruments, including exercise of the right to indemnification for expenses and against liabilities; and take appropriate action to collect the proceeds;

18.__Loans.__Make loans out of trust property, including loans to a beneficiary on terms and conditions the trustee considers to be fair and reasonable under the circumstances; the trustee has a lien on future distributions for repayment of those loans;

19.__Guarantee loans.__Pledge trust property to guarantee loans made by others to the beneficiary;

20.__Appoint trustee in another jurisdiction.__Appoint a trustee to act in another jurisdiction with respect to trust property 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;

21.__Beneficiary under legal disability or incapacitated.__Pay an amount distributable to a beneficiary who is under a legal disability or who the trustee reasonably believes is incapacitated, by paying it directly to the beneficiary or applying it for the beneficiary's benefit, or by:

A.__Paying it to the beneficiary's conservator or, if the beneficiary does not have a conservator, the beneficiary's guardian;

B.__Paying it to the beneficiary's custodian under Title 33, chapter 32, which is the Maine Uniform Transfers to Minors