In re Asch

*116OPINION OF THE COURT

Renee R. Roth, S.

Petitioner, Marion Asch, the trustee and income beneficiary of five modest trusts, requests permission to consolidate all the trusts in order to simplify administration and reduce expenses.

This proceeding is brought in the estate of petitioner’s mother, Sarah H. Mednick, who died in 1959.

Four of the trusts are inter vivas trusts, created on the same date, December 28, 1948, two by Mrs. Mednick and one each by petitioner and her brother, Henry. The fifth trust is a testamentary trust created under Mrs. Mednick’s will.

By virtue of the sequence of death among…