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Who Pays When You Fight Over a Trust?

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Litigation is often expensive. When a client considers filing a lawsuit or must decide how to handle a lawsuit someone else started, one of the most fundamental questions to ask is: Who pays the lawyers? Under the American...more

Downey Brand LLP

When Can California Trustees Use Trust Funds to Hire Lawyers?

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Many family member trustees are uncertain about whether and to what extent they can use trust assets to obtain legal representation. For example, when two parents choose their daughter, upon their incapacity or death, to...more

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How Do I Evaluate and Dispute a California Trustee’s Fee?

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This blog post considers a trustee’s fee from the beneficiary’s perspective. Under California law, a trustee generally can set his or her own fee and collect it without prior disclosure to the beneficiaries. What can a...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

T&E Litigation Newsletter- January 2016

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The last quarter of 2015 produced two interesting decisions from the Appeals Court. In Brady v. Citizens Union Savings Bank, 88 Mass. App. Ct. 416 (2015), the Court addressed whether legal fees and costs already paid to...more

Morgan Lewis

Court Upholds Validity of ERISA Fiduciary Indemnification

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Ruling rejects DOL challenge of an agreement by a 100% ESOP-owned company to advance defense costs and indemnify a trustee....more

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