The bill amends Chapter 18-1 of the General Laws by adding a new section titled "Confidential communications." This section establishes that communications between an attorney and a client acting as a trustee or other fiduciary are privileged and protected from disclosure to the same extent as if the client were acting in their individual capacity. It specifies that this privilege is not waived by the fiduciary relationship between the trustee or other fiduciary and the beneficiaries of the trust, nor by the use of trust property to compensate the attorney for legal services rendered to the trustee or other fiduciary.

Additionally, the bill clarifies that if an attorney's client is a trustee or other fiduciary, the attorney's client is solely the person acting in that capacity, and a successor trustee or other fiduciary does not automatically become the attorney's client solely by virtue of succeeding the person with whom the attorney had an attorney-client relationship.

The bill also allows trustees or other fiduciaries and their successors to agree to share privileged communications related to some or all matters involving the trust. Such disclosures do not waive the disclosing party's privilege, and unless the agreement provides otherwise, privileged communications disclosed under the agreement shall not be disclosed to a third party without the disclosing party's consent or a court order. Finally, the bill states that it shall not impair or abridge the law governing exceptions to the attorney-client privilege relative to claimants through the same deceased individual. This act will take effect upon passage.