Legal Opinion
Cockerham v. Cockerham
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 3, 2013No. 2012 CA 1769PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtParro, J.
The defendants have appealed a judgment, which, among other things, ordered the termination of two family trusts. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On July 11, 1996, Douglas Lamar Cock-erham, Sr. (Lamar) and Ruth C. Cocker-ham (Ruth) established a family trust known as the Cockerham Revocable Trust (revocable trust or first trust). The act creating the trust provided that Lamar and Ruth would be the trustees and beneficiaries of the revocable trust and that, in the event of the death of either one of them, the survivor would become the sole…
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