Orange Catholic Found. v. Arvizu

*285Probate Code section 16440, subdivision (b) (16440(b) ) provides that if a "trustee has acted reasonably and in good faith under the circumstances as known to the trustee," a court has discretion to excuse him or her from liability for a breach of trust if it would be equitable to do so.1 (Italics added.) Acting under this express authority, the trial court denied a petition brought by Orange Catholic Foundation2 and Kevin W. Vann, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange (collectively, the Church) to *286remove Rosie Mary Arvizu from her position as trustee of the Josephine Kennedy Trust (Trust) and…