{"id":10419,"date":"2024-02-25T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T22:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10419"},"modified":"2024-02-25T17:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T22:29:28","slug":"former-partner-of-law-firm-remains-trustee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10419","title":{"rendered":"Former Partner of Law Firm Remains Trustee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Provisions of trust documents requiring that successor trustees that may be appointed in the future must be partners of a named law firm does not require that the trustee who is appointed and accepts the appointment must remain a partner in the named firm, and the trustee who is appointed and serving as trustee does not cease to be a trustee upon leaving the named law firm.  <em>Oberkotter Trusts (No. 1)<\/em>, 1 Fid.Rep.4th 385 (Montgomery O.C. 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the extent that the trust document is silent on the issue, the language of the document must be construed against the document&#8217;s drafters.  <em>Oberkotter Trusts (No. 2)<\/em>, 1 Fid.Rep.4th 396 (Montgomery 2023), <em>app. discont.<\/em>, 797 EDA 2023 (Pa. Super. 9\/25\/2023). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provisions of trust documents requiring that successor trustees that may be appointed in the future must be partners of a named law firm does not require that the trustee who is appointed and accepts the appointment must remain a partner &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10419\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[193,698,322,811],"class_list":["post-10419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-declaratory-judgment","tag-trust-interpretation","tag-trustee-appointment","tag-trustee-vacancy","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10423,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions\/10423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}