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A custodian is always a person; one who has charge of something (a caretaker) of a minor child's estate or an absentee landlord's property. The custodian does not hold title to the property. A trustee is often an institution such as a bank, that holds legal title to a property in order to administer it for a beneficiary, or can be a member of a board elected or appointed to direct the funds and policy of an institution. [source: this information reprinted from Answers.Com]

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