In re the Estate of Ziegler

*425OPINION OF THE COURT

Eve Preminger, S.

William Ziegler, III (William) and his sister Helen Ziegler Steinkraus (Helen) have joined issue before this and other courts in several proceedings and venues from Maine to Delaware. They disagree over William’s management of a publicly held company, American-Maize Products Company (Maize). Their father, the decedent William Ziegler, Jr., controlled Maize through voting stock he held in a family holding company, GIH. As part of the residuary estate under decedent’s will, the GIH stock was distributed to his wife, to William and Helen and to a trust for…