{"id":29,"date":"2013-06-25T20:13:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidfreedman\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2018-08-23T21:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T21:17:38","slug":"trust-litigation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidfreedman.ca\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"Trust Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018trust\u2019 is a legal device used to pass property to someone (a \u2018trustee\u2019) who manages that property on behalf of others (\u2018beneficiaries\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of reasons why someone might settle a trust \u2013 tax advantages, to provide for disabled persons, as part of a business plan or marriage contract, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The most common types of litigation issues that arise include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Interpretation questions<\/strong> as to how the trust settlement should be understood.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Complaints against trustees for improper spending or improper compensation<\/strong> out of trust funds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Complaints against trustees for poor performance or unwillingness to share information<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Passings of Accounts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Winding up a trust<\/strong> (by all beneficiaries who are each of the age of majority) <strong>or a variation of a trust<\/strong> (where one or more beneficiaries are minors, unborn, or \u2018unascertained\u2019).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charitable trust issues<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tax issues.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have experience in all of these areas and would be happy to assist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018trust\u2019 is a legal device used to pass property to someone (a \u2018trustee\u2019) who manages that property on behalf&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfreedman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfreedman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfreedman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidfreedman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidfreedman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/davidfreedman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/davidfreedman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidfreedman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfreedman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}