Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2/20/1985

Davidson v. Davidson

Citations

474 N.E.2d 1137
19 Mass. App. Ct. 364
1985 Mass. App. LEXIS 1554

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holding that a beneficiary's remainder interest in a trust in which the trustees were \empowered in their uncontrolled discretion to invade principal for the benefit of [the beneficiary's] mother\ constituted a property interest
holding that trial court, in dividing marital property, could not consider husband’s expectancy under his mother’s will where mother was alive at time of divorce and could have changed her will
noting that the remainder interest there involved may have been at the “outer limits” of a property interest that properly may be included within the marital estate subject to division
“G. L. c. 208, § 34, issues are not ‘necessarily involved’ in a judgment of divorce”
anticipated inheritance under a will where testator still living and could change terms of will
anticipated inheritance under a will where testator still living and could change terms of will

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Judges: Brown, Rose, Warner

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