Town of Randolph v. Roberts

How courts have described this case

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• creditor denied access to assets of testamentary; spendthrift trust to reimburse itself for beneficiary’s welfare disability charges
• because no public policy prohibited trust beneficiary from receiving public assistance and settlor might have intended to supplement public assistance, trustees were not required to use trust principal to reimburse the state
• because no public policy prohibited trust beneficiary from receiving public assistance and settlor might have intended to supplement public assistance, trustees were not required to use trust principal to reimburse the state
• state welfare agency could not recover from discretionary trust for disability payments
• “arbitrarily, capriciously, or in bad faith”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).