{"id":3851,"date":"2016-04-13T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:56:21","slug":"trust-modification-to-remove-trustee-on-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3851","title":{"rendered":"On Appeal: Trust Modification to Remove Trustee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has issued an order allowing an appeal from the decision of the Superior Court in <em>Trust under Agreement of Edward Winslow Taylor<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A16033-15o%20-%201023648615390947.pdf\">2015 PA Super 199<\/a>, (9\/18\/2015), (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A16033-15do%20-%201023648615390943.pdf\">dissent by Platt, J.<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 No. 692 EAL 2015 (4\/12\/16).\u00a0 In its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/692EAL2015%20-%201026179296827526.pdf?cb=1\">order<\/a>, the Supreme Court restated the issue as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The issue presented by petitioner and rephrased for clarity is whether theSuperior Court erred in holding that trust beneficiaries may circumvent the requirements for removal of a trustee in Section 7766 of the Trust Act, 20 Pa.C.S.A. \u00a7 7766, by amending the trust under 20 Pa.C.S.A. \u00a7 7740.1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For additional background and analysis, see <a href=\"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3344\">Trust Modifications to Remove Trustees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 11\/23\/2025<\/em>: The Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Trust under Agreement of Edward Winslow Taylor<\/em>, 640 Pa. 629, 164 A.3d 1147,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/J-5-2017mo%20-%2010317653721312855.pdf\">15 EAP 2016<\/a>\u00a0(Pa. 7\/19\/2017), rev\u2019g 124 A.3d 334,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A16033-15o%20-%201023648615390947.pdf\">2015 PA Super 199<\/a>, (9\/18\/2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has issued an order allowing an appeal from the decision of the Superior Court in Trust under Agreement of Edward Winslow Taylor,\u00a02015 PA Super 199, (9\/18\/2015), (dissent by Platt, J.).\u00a0\u00a0 No. 692 EAL 2015 (4\/12\/16).\u00a0 In its &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3851\">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":[29],"tags":[476,305,201,306],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","tag-pef-7740-1","tag-pef-7766","tag-trust-modification","tag-trustee-removal","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","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=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11992,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/11992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}