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IN RE HUGH GOODRICH FAMILY TRUST

No. 96-301.

688 So.2d 1184 (1996)

In re the HUGH GOODRICH FAMILY TRUST. Hart Latimer Goodrich, Administrator of the Succession of David Adams Goodrich—Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Writ Denied January 6, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Andrew Weiss, New Orleans, for Hart Latimer Goodrich, Adm.

Edward B. Benjamin, Jr., New Orleans, for Thomas E. Berry, Trustee.

Before DOUCET, C.J., and YELVERTON and PETERS, JJ.

DOUCET, Chief Judge.

This appeal concerns the ability of the settlor of trust property to include in the trust document a provision in anticipation of an amendment to the trust law.

On October 1, 1963, Esther Florence Whinery Goodrich created an irrevocable inter vivos trust for her son and four then-existing grandchildren. The trust was called the Hugh Goodrich Family Louisiana Trust (the Trust). At the time the Trust Estates Law limited the beneficiaries...

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