Brent v. State of Maryland Central Collection Unit

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge,

Specially Assigned.

We are called upon in this case to determine the sanctity of the spendthrift provisions of a trust agreement. The agreement was executed over 50 years ago by Dr. Hugh Warren Brent as the “settlor” and Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore (now Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Co.) as the “Trustee.”

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The trust agreement called for the income from the corpus to be paid to settlor’s surviving widow for her natural life. At her death, the fund was to be divided into three parts, one for each of settlor’s children. In 1950, Laura Brent, one of…