Legal fees incurred by fiduciaries in connection wtih their stewardship are generally chargeable to a trust or estate as a whole. This week’s blog entry discusses a recent case in which non-objecting beneficiaries sought to allocate trustees’ litigation costs solely to the objecting parties’ interests.
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April 2009
Court Rejects Executor’s Attempt to Sell House To Herself For $10
By Eric Penzer on
Posted in Fiduciaries
This week’s entry discusses a recent decision rejecting an executor’s attempt to “sell” the decedent’s house to herself for the price of $10.
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A Matter of Faith: Conditioning Bequests on Religious Observance and Marriage
By Robert Harper on
Posted in Construction of Wills and Trusts
This week’s entry contemplates whether bequests conditioned on religious observance are enforceable in contemporary times.
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