Legal Opinion
Mayfield v. Heiman
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 16, 2012No. A12A0355PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Phipps, Presiding Judge.
Curtis Mayfield III and Sharon LaVigne (“the beneficiaries”) sued Marvin Heiman, Sussex Financial Group, Inc., an accounting firm, and others for their alleged mismanagement of a family trust created by their father, a singer-songwriter and record producer, Curtis Mayfield, Jr., who died in 1999. The beneficiaries alleged against Heiman and the other defendants a cause of action for breach of fiduciary duty and “breach of trust (and self-dealing).” Some of the defendants were dismissed from the case, but Heiman and Sussex were not. Both sides moved for summary…
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