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Unjust Enrichment Trustees Estate Planning

Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - Suffolk University...

Due to scrivener negligence, the dispositive provisions of a trust fail to reflect the deceased settlor’s wishes: Can it be that...

Assume the deceased settlor of a trust had intended that his niece be included in the beneficiary class, but his estate-planning attorney had negligently made no provision for her in the governing instrument. After settlor’s...more

Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - Suffolk University...

The Uniform Trust Code inadvertently puts a bullseye on the trustee’s doctrinally indispensable affirmative duty to furnish all...

Many of my prior JDSUPRA postings caution that codification of the law of trusts, such as the Uniform Trust Code (UTC), are only partial codifications. See the catalogue of my prior postings below. There is much prevailing...more

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