Clayton v. Behle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that where a settlor “has not reserved a power of revocation,” a settlor “cannot revoke [a] trust” (cleaned up)
• noting the settlor may not revoke the trust if he has not reserved a power of revocation
• finding an inter vivos trust irrevocable due to the trust's lack of a provision permitting revocation, and evidence of the settlor's understanding and affirmative intent that it be irrevocable
• finding an inter vivos trust irrevocable due to the trust's lack of a provision permitting revocation, and evidence of the settlor's understanding and affirmative intent that it be irrevocable
• holding an irrevocable, as opposed to revocable, trust was created in part based on evidence that the “settlor informed his attorney that the purpose for the trust was to protect assets from all claims by third parties and to reserve and retain the ranch in the male family line”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).