L.W.K. v. E.R.C.

Pursuant to G. L. c. 215, § 13,4 and Mass. R. Dom. Rel. P. 64, a judge in the Probate and Family Court reserved and reported four questions concerning the financial obligations of a deceased father’s estate to his minor child:

“1. whether a testator, survived by a minor child to whom he owed . . . support pursuant to a court order, may disinherit that child pursuant to the [omitted child statute,] G. L. c. 191, § 20;

“2. whether the child’s claim for support is in the nature of a preferred creditor’s claim;

“3. whether a posthumous support obligation includes assets of an inter vivos trust; and

“4…