GRIFFIN v. GRIFFIN

No. 75088.

832 P.2d 810 (1992)

Martha GRIFFIN, Appellee, v. John Watson GRIFFIN, and David F. Griffin, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Amended May 18, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kornfeld & Franklin, Julian P. Kornfeld, and Dennis S. Boxeur, Oklahoma City, for appellee.

Susan Bussey, Norman, for appellants.


DOOLIN, Justice.

The question presented in this appeal is whether an amendment to a written trust agreement should be reformed because of an alleged inadvertent scrivener's error, to reflect the grantor's intent that his trust estate qualify for the maximum possible Federal estate tax marital deduction.

In March 1977, John T. Griffin, as grantor, executed the John T. Griffin Revocable Trust Agreement, naming himself...

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