Weiss v. Berkett

Patricia Pollack Weiss, the defendant below, appeals from an order requiring her to provide a detailed trust accounting for the year 1989. For the following reasons, we quash the order under review.

After Berkett, the plaintiff below, filed suit for discharge of Weiss, the defendant below, as trustee of several testamentary trusts, Weiss and Berkett entered into a settlement agreement. Under this 1989 open-court settlement agreement, Berkett was to assume the trusteeship immediately. Weiss was to transfer all the trust records within her possession to Berkett within ten days and to send…