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NJ Appeals Court Allows Limited Disclosure of Psychiatrist?s Notes in Case Challenging Creation of a Supplemental Needs Trust
A New Jersey appeals court overturned the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that the defendants improperly created a supplemental needs trust, allowing the defendants limited access to the plaintiff’s psychotherapy records in order to rebut her claim that the trust’s settlor did not think she needed a trust...

Living Trust Scams/Trust Mills/Elderlaw Planning Seminars - STAY AWAY!
A living trust scam is typically where [older] couples are drawn to a seminar (of some kind) at which they are sold a one-size-fits-all estate plan that almost always involves some kind of a trust...

Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation?
Max Schanzenbach (Benjamin Mazur Professor of Law, Northwestern School of Law) and Robert H. Sitkoff (John L. Gray Professor of Law, Harvard Law School) wrote a new article entitled Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation?,...

Remainder Interest Vests at Date of Trust Termination, Not When Trust Property Later Distributed
The testator?s will created a trust for her niece, terminating on the earlier of the exhaustion of the trust principal or the niece?s death...

Loans by trust to insurance trust violated prohibition on retention of unproductive property
An income beneficiary objected to the trustees? accounting which showed that the trust had made loans to a second trust to pay premiums on a life insurance policy on the income beneficiary...

Case o' The Week: Don't Trust Prison Cooks - Contreras and the Abuse of Trust Adjustment
Do the cooks that make prison "food" enjoy a special "position of trust?" Not so much, says the Ninth in a good new sentencing case...

How can I get my parents away from my bulling brother?
First of all, if you are paying your lawyer, you should not be on the back burne...

Should I sign a Waiver of Process Consent to Probate?
By signing a Waiver of Process; Consent to Probate, you agree that there does no...

How do I divide the trust?
First, check the trust documents and see if anything is in there on this subject...

I think my son has been underhandedly taken out of his great grandmother's will. For the last 9 years of her life I was told by his greatgrandmother that my son would be taken care of when she died. She opened a trust in
you need to cintact a lawyer that specializes in wills and probate so that he or...

My attorney charged me instead of the adversary he agreed on. he had me sign a motion and never entered it into the settlement. He took his fees from my trust account.
A lawyer who handles attorney malpractice claims....