LINEBACK BY HUTCHENS v. STOUT

No. 8523SC284.

339 S.E.2d 103 (1986)

Anita Douglas LINEBACK by her Guardian ad Litem, Sara L. HUTCHENS v. June Douglas STOUT.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 4, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zachary, Zachary & Harding by Benjamin H. Harding, Jr., Yadkinville, for petitioner.

Pettyjohn, Molitoris & Connolly by H. Glenn Pettyjohn, Winston-Salem, for respondent.


WELLS, Judge.

Respondent argues that it was the testator's intention in Article IV of his will to create a discretionary trust wherein payments to petitioner were to be in the sole discretion of the trustee and that the superior court erred in ruling to the contrary. A discretionary trust is a trust wherein the trustee is given the discretion to determine whether and to what extent to pay or apply trust income or principal to or for the benefit of a beneficiary. Bogert...

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