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- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions
- Feminist Judgments Series Editors
- Advisory Panel for Feminist Judgments Series
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Advisory Panel for Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Cases
- 1 Introduction to the Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions Project
- 2 Commentary on In re Strittmater’s Estate
- 3 Commentary on In re Will of Moses
- 4 Commentary on In re Estate of Wilson
- 5 Commentary on O’Neal v. Wilkes
- 6 Commentary on Via v. Putnam
- 7 Commentary on In re Estate of Myers
- 8 Commentary on Egelhoff v. Egelhoff
- 9 Commentary on Drevenik v. Nardone
- 10 Commentary on Reece v. Elliott
- 11 Commentary on Khabbaz v. Commissioner
- 12 Commentary on Karsenty v. Schoukroun
- Index
9 - Commentary on Drevenik v. Nardone
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 August 2020
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions
- Feminist Judgments Series Editors
- Advisory Panel for Feminist Judgments Series
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Advisory Panel for Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Cases
- 1 Introduction to the Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions Project
- 2 Commentary on In re Strittmater’s Estate
- 3 Commentary on In re Will of Moses
- 4 Commentary on In re Estate of Wilson
- 5 Commentary on O’Neal v. Wilkes
- 6 Commentary on Via v. Putnam
- 7 Commentary on In re Estate of Myers
- 8 Commentary on Egelhoff v. Egelhoff
- 9 Commentary on Drevenik v. Nardone
- 10 Commentary on Reece v. Elliott
- 11 Commentary on Khabbaz v. Commissioner
- 12 Commentary on Karsenty v. Schoukroun
- Index
Summary
The question presented for our review is alleged to be complicated one, but it is instead rather easily stated and ruled upon. May Dominick (the Appellant), serving as trustee of a spendthrift trust that his mother Inez (the Settlor) created for the benefit of his brother John (the Trust Beneficiary) refuse to distribute trust funds to satisfy John’s current and past child support obligations, even if John wishes to make the payments? We would like to take a moment to rephrase this issue a bit less formally, stating instead: May a man, who has been put in charge of managing funds for another man, arbitrarily decide to deprive a mother and two children of the court-ordered funds they are entitled to receive for basic survival and necessities?17 Despite the Appellant’s unpersuasive arguments to the contrary and misplaced reliance on irrelevant case law, we think this question is not as complicated as it is alleged to be, and we thus answer this question unabashedly in the negative.
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- Feminist JudgmentsRewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions, pp. 179 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020