Hocke Trust

WALKER, J.,

This dispute concerns exceptions to the first and partial account and statement of proposed partial distribution of the Northwest Pennsylvania Bank & Trust Company, trustee under an inter vivos life insurance trust created by James N. Hocke. The opposing parties are Jean. L. Waters, daughter of the decedent/settlor, as, income beneficiary, and her children, Ronald Waters, Debbie Muroskey, Jack C. Waters and Susan Kroh, remainder beneficiaries, (hereinafter collectively referred to as Waters) on the one hand, and Shirley Hope, stepdaughter of the decedent/settlor (hereinafter Hope),…