LORD ABBETT INVESTMENT TRUST AMENDMENT TO

Exhibit 99.(a)(xiv)

LORD XXXXXX INVESTMENT TRUST

AMENDMENT TO

DECLARATION AND AGREEMENT OF TRUST

The undersigned, being at least a majority of the Trustees of the Lord Xxxxxx Investment Trust, a Delaware Statutory Trust (the “Trust”) organized pursuant to a Declaration and Agreement of Trust dated August 16, 1993 (the “Declaration”), do hereby establish, pursuant to Section 5.3 of the Declaration, three new classes of shares for each of the Trust’s ten series:  Lord Xxxxxx Convertible Fund, Lord Xxxxxx Core Fixed Income Fund, Lord Xxxxxx High Yield Fund, Lord Xxxxxx Limited Duration U.S. Government & Government Sponsored Enterprises Fund, Lord Xxxxxx Total Return Fund, Lord Xxxxxx U.S. Government & Government Sponsored Enterprises Fund, Lord Xxxxxx Balanced Strategy Fund, Lord Xxxxxx Income Strategy Fund, Lord Xxxxxx World Growth & Income Strategy Fund, and Lord Xxxxxx Diversified Equity Strategy Fund; such new classes to be designated Class F, Class R2 and Class R3 shares of each series.  Any variations as to purchase price, determination of net asset value, the price, terms and manner of redemption and special and relative rights as to dividends on liquidation, and conditions under which such series or class shall have separate voting rights, shall be as set forth in the Declaration or as elsewhere determined by the Board of Trustees of the Trust.

This instrument shall constitute an amendment to the Declaration, effective August 10, 2007.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this instrument this 26th day of July, 2007.

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