{"id":7988,"date":"2020-06-22T12:59:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7988"},"modified":"2023-01-27T07:47:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:47:23","slug":"trust-modification-invalid-even-with-settlors-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7988","title":{"rendered":"Trust Modification Invalid Even with Settlor&#8217;s Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following <em>Trust under Agreement of Edward Winslow Taylor<\/em>, 640 Pa. 629, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=11975329031288005609\" target=\"_blank\">164 A.3d 1147<\/a> (2017), a trust cannot be modified to allow the beneficiaries to remove and replace trustees even with the consent of the settlor under <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/LI\/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&amp;ttl=20&amp;div=0&amp;chpt=77&amp;sctn=40&amp;subsctn=1\" target=\"_blank\">20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 7740.1(a)<\/a>.  <em>Garrison Trusts, <\/em>10 Fid.Rep.3d 189, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/00031601.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Nos. 1992-X1509, 1992-X1518, and 1992-X1519<\/a> (Montgomery O.C. 6\/16\/2020), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A13008-21m%20-%20104905789147531462.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">1429 EDA 2020<\/a> (Pa. Super. 9\/27\/2021) (non-precedential), <em>rev&#8217;d<\/em>, ___ Pa. ___, ___ A.3d ___,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/J-57A-C-2022mo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">61 MAP 2022, 62 MAP 2022, and 63 MAP 2022<\/a>\u00a0(1\/19\/2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[DBE Note:  This decision is almost certainly wrong.  It relies entirely upon the failure of the <em>Taylor<\/em> court to distinguish between subsections (a) and (b) of  \u00a7 7740.1, and so reaches a result that the <em>Taylor<\/em> court never considered.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Updated on 1\/27\/2023 to show that <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9565\">the Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court<\/a> and Orphans&#8217; Court.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Trust under Agreement of Edward Winslow Taylor, 640 Pa. 629, 164 A.3d 1147 (2017), a trust cannot be modified to allow the beneficiaries to remove and replace trustees even with the consent of the settlor under 20 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7988\">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":[201],"class_list":["post-7988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-trust-modification","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988","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=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9584,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}