In Re Guetersloh

How courts have described this case

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• holding that nonattorney trustee who was also trust beneficiary could not act pro se to represent trust in court
• concluding nonattorney’s appearance in trial court on behalf of trust amounted to unauthorized practice of law
• concluding nonattorney’s appearance in trial court on behalf of trust amounted to unauthorized practice of law
• concluding nonattorney’s appearance in trial court on behalf of trust amounted to unauthorized practice of law
• holding, by analogy to case law prohibiting non-attorney from appearing pro se in his capacity as executor of estate, that trustee of a trust is likewise not the real party in interest in a suit brought to terminate and distribute the proceeds of the trust
• “[I]f a non-attorney trustee appears in court on behalf of the trust, he or she necessarily represents the interests of others, which amounts to the unauthorized practice of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).