Commerce Bank, N.A. v. Bolander

How courts have described this case

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• holding that even after a settlor's death the \clear unambiguous intent of the legislature [expressed] in K.S.A. 58a-505 [a][3] [is to] mak[e] the assets of a revocable trust 'subject to the claims of the settlor's creditors.' \
• The court is free to go outside the choice of law designation in a trust in establishing the jurisdiction \having the most significant relationship to the matter at issue.\
• “When a trust is created for the settlor’s own benefit, the settlor’s creditors can reach any trust assets and, for purpose of the present case, those nonexempt assets available to the settlor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).