Pezza v. Pezza
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOURCIER, Justice.
This ease comes before us on appeal from a final judgment of the Superior Court. The plaintiff below, Olga Pezza (Olga), had filed a petition seeking a declaration of her rights in four parcels of real estate that her deceased husband, Anthony Pezza (Anthony), had transferred prior to his death into an irrevocable trust for the benefit of his children by a former marriage. The trial justice found that the trust created by Anthony was valid, constituted a completed and absolute inter vivos transfer by the time he died, and would not be declared invalid for the purpose…
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