Handelsman v. Handelsman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “in general, will substitutes are to be construed according to the rules used to construe wills”
• reformation is the equivalent of allowing a stranger to make a will for the decedent
• a scrivener’s error is a minor mistake that is “mechanical or technical” rather than “decisional or judgmental”
• “Only nomenclature distinguishes the remainder interest created by *** a trust from the mere expectancy arising under a will.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
• reformation is the equivalent of allowing a stranger to make a will for the decedent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).