Angela K. Hudson v. UMB Bank, N.A., Trustee of A.B. Hudson Testamentary Trust

CYNTHIA L. MARTIN, Judge.

The lifetime income beneficiaries of four testamentary trusts appeal the trial court’s judgment in favor of the trustee in an action that sought to remove the trustee or to modify the trusts to permit easier removal of the trustee. The lifetime income beneficiaries argue that the trial court erred: (1) in concluding that the trusts’ principal place of administration is Kansas requiring Kansas law to apply to the determination of their claim seeking removal of the trustee; and (2) in concluding that the trusts are charitable trusts supporting the entry of summary…