Yates v. Wessel

Appellant, the administrator of the estate of Nancy Gormley, appeals an order refusing to distribute assets of a trust and closing a guardianship estate. We reverse.

Years ago Adelbert and Dorothy Guel-zow set up a trust to provide for their care for the remainder of their lives and upon their deaths to be distributed to their daughter, Nancy Gormley. By 1990 both of the Guelzows were deceased; however, two parcels of property located in Palm Beach County which were assets of the trust remained in the name of the trust.

In 1999 Gormley, a resident of Virginia, was declared incapacitated, and a…