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· 4/25/1989

Schwarzkopf v. American Heart Ass'n of Greater Miami, Inc.

Citations

  • 541 So. 2d 1348
  • 14 Fla. L. Weekly 1041
  • 1989 Fla. App. LEXIS 2222
  • 1989 WL 39593

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the decision as to the best use of the corpus is “not entrusted to the trial court, however wise and well intentioned, but to the person whose money it was to distribute”
  • holding trial court had no authority to terminate testamentary trust prematurely where settlor’s intent was to postpone corpus distribution for ten years
  • rejecting request by beneficiaries to prematurely terminate trust in order to avoid unnecessary administrative costs
  • rejecting request by beneficiaries to prematurely terminate trust in order to avoid unnecessary administrative costs

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Judges: Schwartz, C.J., Barkdull, J., and John W. Dell, Associate Judge

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