Ryan v. Ryan

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• undisputed affidavits sufficient to establish settlor's intent and support reformation of trust
• term “heirs” as used in the trust did not conform to settlors’ intent because “heirs” includes surviving spouse under state law and settlors did not intend to include any surviving spouse, reformation affirmed applying Massachusetts law related trust to reformation
• record contained affidavits of settlors stating their intent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Matthew Larson Trust Agreement
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2013-05-28· cited 10×
• Bellemare v. Clermont
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-07-18· cited 7×
• Ciampa v. Bank of America
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-08-13· cited 6×
• Booth v. Kornegay
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-08-19· cited 1×
• Koutoukis v. Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services
  Massachusetts Land Court· 2021-09-17

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Walker v. Walker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-03-23· cited 52×
• DiCarlo v. Mazzarella
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-10-13· cited 28×
• Gustafson v. Svenson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-08-30· cited 12×
• Fiduciary Trust Co. v. Gow
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-01-12· cited 10×
• Sheinkopf v. Bornstein
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-03-04· cited 3×
• Holden v. Holden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-05-24· cited 2×