{"id":8781,"date":"2021-09-04T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T13:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2021-09-04T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T13:04:59","slug":"allocating-income-and-fees-for-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8781","title":{"rendered":"Allocating Income and Fees for Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In allocating a settlement for improper distributions from a trust between income and principal, the court determined the amount of income that would have been earned by the trust by looking at the income earned by a similar trust created by the same grantor.  The court also allowed legal fees to one of the beneficiaries for creating the settlement fund under the &#8220;common fund&#8221; doctrine.  <em>Scaife Trust<\/em>, 11 Fid.Rep.3d 143 (Allegheny O.C. 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In allocating a settlement for improper distributions from a trust between income and principal, the court determined the amount of income that would have been earned by the trust by looking at the income earned by a similar trust created &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8781\">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":[256,761],"class_list":["post-8781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-common-fund-doctrine","tag-reasonable-income","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781","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=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8784,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions\/8784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}