Nevin v. Union Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the better rule is to allow only personal representatives, not beneficiaries, to sue for estate-planning malpractice, because what may be good for one beneficiary is not necessarily good for the estate as a whole
• explaining that allowing beneficiaries to sue decedent’s attorney for legal malpractice for estate planning could affect attorney’s judgment where there are potentially conflicting interests
• explaining that allowing beneficiaries to sue decedent’s attorney for legal malpractice for estate planning could affect attorney’s judgment where there are potentially conflicting interests

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).