FLA. NAT. BANK OF PALM BEACH CTY. v. Genova

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[t]he central characteristic of a revocable trust is that the settlor ‘has the right to recall or end the trust at any time, and thereby regain absolute ownership of the trust property’ ”
• describing the settlor of a revocable trust as the sole beneficiary of her own revocable trust until her death
• \This retention of control over property distinguishes a revocable trust from the other types of conveyances[.]\
• trustee-beneficiary is not justified in shifting to co-trustee functions related to administration of the trust
• a mentally competent settlor may revoke a revocable trust, regardless of whether the decision was the product of undue influence
• “when a settlor sets up a revocable trust, he or she has the right to recall or end the trust at any time, and thereby regain absolute ownership of the trust property”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).