Michael Collins v. Lynn B. Collins

¶ 1. This case calls upon us to consider the effect in a divorce case of a grantor's amendment to a revocable trust that changed the beneficiary from husband to husband's son, thereby keeping the trust property out of the marital estate and shielding it from wife's claims. Wife appeals the family division's final property division award. In particular, she challenges the trial court's refusal to enforce a subpoena requiring grantor father to testify about the trust and his capacity to change its beneficiary and argues that the family court should have included the trust assets as part of the…