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MOORE v. JONES

No. 7811SC227.

261 S.E.2d 289 (1980)

44 N.C. App. 578

Grace T. MOORE v. E. Craig JONES, Jr., as Trustee of the "Ramie L. Moore Trust Fund," E. Craig Jones, Jr., as Executor of the Estate of Ramie Lawrence Moore, Mount Olive College Incorporated, Branch Chapel Free Will Baptist Church, Selma Troop # 32 of the Boy Scouts of America, Percy L. Moore, J. Allie Moore, Effie J. Davis, Elizabeth M. Lynch, Joseph A. Moore, Jr., Frances T. Moore, James L. Creech and Clarence M. Moore.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

January 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Young, Moore, Henderson & Alvis by B. T. Henderson, II, and R. Michael Strickland, Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellee.

Corbett & Corbett, by Albert A. Corbett, Jr., Smithfield, for defendants-appellants.

E. Craig Jones, Jr., Selma, Executor and Trustee, defendant-appellant, pro se.

PARKER, Judge.

In this State a valid trust may be created even though the settlor retains both a life estate and the power to revoke or modify the trust. Moreover, the coupling of such retained rights and powers in an otherwise valid inter vivos trust will not invalidate the trust as an attempted testamentary disposition when, as here, the trust instrument was not executed in the manner required for execution of...

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