In Re Ross Family Trusts

[¶ 1] The two minor children of Rodney E. Ross III appeal from the judgment entered in the Cumberland County Probate Court (Childs, J.) holding that the three trust agreements of which they are remainder beneficiaries provide for the distribution of the trust assets in accordance with the intestacy laws of the State of Maine and not, as they contend, per stirpes. The children argue that the express reference to per stirpes in a trust article directing distribution of principal takes precedence over a subsequent article defining per stirpes in conformity with the intestacy laws of Maine in…