HOWARD v. SPRAGINS

SC 2273.

350 So.2d 318 (1977)

Amy Camelia HOWARD et al. v. Anna Ruth W. SPRAGINS et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 23, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elbert H. Parsons, Jr. of Ford, Caldwell, Ford & Payne, Aubrey O. Lammons of Lammons, Bell & Sneed, Julian D. Butler of Butler & Potter, Huntsville, for appellants.

Patrick W. Richardson of Bell, Richardson & Cleary, Huntsville, for appellee, First Alabama Bank of Huntsville.

J. Allen Brinkley of Johnston & Johnston, Huntsville, for appellee, Anna Ruth W. Spragins.

M. U. Griffin, II, of Griffin & Griffin, Huntsville, for appellee, M. B. Spragins, Jr.


BLOODWORTH, Justice.

Appellants, Amy Camelia Howard, et al., appeal from a judgment authorizing and ordering appellee, First Alabama Bank of Huntsville, N. A. (Bank), as trustee, to pay a judgment for child support out of the corpus of two trusts.

The issue presented is whether the trustee, Bank, may legally pay child support payments from the corpus of the two trusts, notwithstanding the spendthrift provision1 in each trust. We...

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