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IN RE PASSARELLI FAMILY TRUST

No. 71 MAP 2019.

242 A.3d 1257 (2020)

IN RE: PASSARELLI FAMILY TRUST. Appeal of: Margaret G. Passarelli.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: December 22, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isaac Jonathan Jean-Pierre, Esq. , John Francis McKenna, Esq. , Lance J. Nelson, Esq. , MacElree Harvey, Ltd., West Chester, for Appellant.

Mark Randolph Ashton, Esq. , Fox Rothschild LLP, Exton, for Appellee.

Douglas Wesler Olshin, Esq. , Saling & Litvin, West Chester, for Guardian Ad Litem.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.

OPINION

In this discretionary appeal, we are asked to determine the burden of proof for a settlor of an irrevocable trust in order to void the trust on grounds of fraudulent inducement in the creation of the trust. We hold that a settlor averring fraud in the inducement of an irrevocable trust must...

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