Legal Opinion
Ferri v. Powell-Ferri
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 20, 2017No. SJC 12070PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGaziano, J.
In this case we are asked to answer three questions certified to us by the Connecticut Supreme Court concerning the authority of a trustee to distribute (i.e., to decant) substantially all of the assets of an irrevocable trust into another trust. The questions, arising out of divorce proceedings pending in Connecticut between Nancy Powell-Ferri and her husband Paul John *652Ferri, Jr., the beneficiary of a Massachusetts irrevocable trust, are as follows:
“1. Under Massachusetts law, did the terms of the Paul John Ferri, Jr. Trust (1983 Trust) . . . empower its trustees to distribute substantially…
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