In Re: The Matter of the Supervised Administration of the Estate of Wayne Lewis Stayback, Joseph Stayback v. Jeffrey Stayback and Julie Warnke

NAJAM, Judge.

Statement of the Case

[1], Wayne Lewis Stayback, deceased, was the father of three children: Joseph Stayback, Jeffrey Stayback, and Julie Warnke. .In 2010, Wayne created the Wayne Lewis Stayback Irrevocable Living Trust (“the Trust”), the corpus of which consisted of approximately seventy-five acres of real property in LaPorte County (“the property”) and some personal property. After Wayne died in 2011, Jeffrey and Julie filed a joint petition to remove Joseph as trustee of the Trust. Joseph filed a motion to dismiss that petition, and he requested fees and expenses. Jeffrey and…