IN RE DEBORAH DEREEDE LIVING TRUST v. KARP

Opinion No. 5639.

427 S.C. 336 (2019)

831 S.E.2d 435

In re: DEBORAH DEREEDE LIVING TRUST DATED DECEMBER 18, 2013, Hugh Dereede and Tyre Dealer Network Consultants, Inc., Respondents, v. Courtney Feeley KARP, Individually and as Trustee of the Deborah Dereede Living Trust dated December 18, 2013 and Michael Fehily, as a qualified beneficiary of the Deborah Dereede Living Trust dated December 18, 2013, Defendants, Of whom Courtney Feeley Karp, Individually and as Trustee of the Deborah Dereede Living Trust dated December 18, 2013, is the Appellant.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Filed April 10, 2019.

Withdrawn, Substituted and Refiled July 3, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Desa Ballard and Harvey M. Watson, III , both of Ballard & Watson, Attorneys at Law, of West Columbia; and Peter John Nosal and Thomas Carroll Jeter, III , both of Nosal & Jeter, LLP, of Fort Mill, all for Appellant.

John P. Gettys, Jr. and Daniel Joseph Ballou , both of Morton & Gettys, LLC, of Rock Hill, for Respondents.


After a bench trial, the trial court ruled that Courtney Feeley Karp breached her fiduciary duty as Trustee of a trust created by her late mother by not timely distributing certain trust proceeds to Hugh Dereede (Hugh), Karp's stepfather, and to Tyre Dealer Network Consultants, Inc. (Tyre), Hugh...

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