In Re the Administration of the C.H. Young Revocable Living Trust

KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] A trust instrument allocated all but eighty acres of land to specific beneficiaries. One beneficiary believed that the trustor intended to assign the eighty acres to him. When a petition to modify the trust was submitted, the circuit court denied it on grounds of laches and expiration of the statute of limitations. We conclude that the doctrine of laches precludes re forming or modifying the trust instrument because the aggrieved beneficiary, while knowing of the problem, took no action to petition the court for over ten years.

Background

[¶2.] C.H. Young (Cy) and his…