Legal Opinion
Estate of Edwards
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 18, 1959No. Civ. 22503PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAshburn, J.
Appeal from order distributing to one of the beneficiaries a portion of the corpus of a testamentary trust created by the will of Alfred Edwards, deceased.
The trust was created for the benefit of the surviving wife, Mabel, as to one-half of the residue of decedent’s estate and for each of the four children—Alfred B. Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards Jones, John B. Edwards and Richmond A. Edwards —as to one-eighth thereof. It further provided (as interpreted by the decree of distribution) that said respective shares should be held in a spendthrift trust for each of the beneficiaries during his or her…
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