{"id":8744,"date":"2021-08-08T08:52:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T12:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8744"},"modified":"2022-01-04T22:15:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T03:15:23","slug":"trustee-cannot-deny-withdrawals-by-beneficiary-with-adhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8744","title":{"rendered":"Trustee Cannot Deny Withdrawals by Beneficiary with ADHD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although the trustee had the discretion to deny requested withdrawals by the beneficiary if in the opinion of the trustee the beneficiary is suffering from a disability that renders him unable to manage his own affairs, the trustee failed to properly use that discretion when the &#8220;disability&#8221; was childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) allegedly aggravated by marijuana use.  <em>Harrison Trust<\/em>, 11 Fid.Rep.3d 116 (Bucks O.C. 2021) (trust governed by Florida law), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A27024-21m%20-%20105002755155983998.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">635 EDA 2021<\/a> (Pa. Super. 1\/4\/2022) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the trustee had the discretion to deny requested withdrawals by the beneficiary if in the opinion of the trustee the beneficiary is suffering from a disability that renders him unable to manage his own affairs, the trustee failed to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8744\">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":[671],"class_list":["post-8744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-trustee-discretion","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744","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=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8996,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions\/8996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}