{"id":4824,"date":"2017-07-19T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T18:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2018-10-06T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T13:26:07","slug":"supreme-court-denies-trust-modification-to-replace-trustee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4824","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Denies Trust Modification to Replace Trustee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has held that that 20 Pa.S.C. \u00a7 7766 is the exclusive method for removing a trustee, and that a trust cannot be modified under \u00a7 7740.1 to allow the beneficiaries to remove and replace the trustee. \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> (Pa. 7\/19\/2017), rev&#8217;g 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<p>For additional background and analysis of the Superior Court opinion, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=3344\">Trust Modifications to Remove Trustees<\/a>. \u00a0(Commentary on the Supreme Court opinion is also planned.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has held that that 20 Pa.S.C. \u00a7 7766 is the exclusive method for removing a trustee, and that a trust cannot be modified under \u00a7 7740.1 to allow the beneficiaries to remove and replace the trustee. \u00a0Trust &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=4824\">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":[476,305,201,306],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","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\/4824","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=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6226,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions\/6226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}