Legal Opinion

In Re Marvine W. Alford Trust

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided December 11, 2008No. 49A02-0805-CV-413PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BAKER, Chief Judge.

Today we are confronted with an issue of first impression in Indiana: Did the trial court properly dismiss a petition to remove a trustee and compel an accounting for lack of subject matter jurisdiction when the settlor’s will and trust documents provided that the trust was to be administered in accordance with the laws of Virginia?

*947Appellants-petitioners Joseph and Sarah Rogers (the Rogerses) appeal the trial court’s dismissal of them petition to remove appellee-respondent J. Robert Lyons as trustee of the Marvine W. Alford Trust (Alford Trust). Specifically, the…

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