Sullivan v. Burkin

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a spouse’s § 34 estate can include trust assets in some circumstances
• statutory interpretation allowing surviving spouse to reach assets placed in inter vivos trust by deceased spouse held to apply only prospectively
• “For the purposes of determining whether a trust is testamentary . . . the origin of the assets, totally at the disposal of the settlor once received, should make no difference”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).