Wetherill v. Basham

OPINION

PELANDER, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 In this case involving disposition of assets in a family trust, plaintiff/appellant Gwendolyn Renee Wetherill appeals from the trial court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of defendants/appellees. In affirming that order, we hold that a co-set-tlor’s amendment to the trust, though ineffective as such, nonetheless served as an effective, though inadvertent, exercise of a power of appointment under the trust so as to change the sole remainder beneficiary. We also hold that the attorney who represented the co-settlor in preparing the amendment owed…