Cassady v. Cassady
The Cassady family has been mired in strife over the distribution of Dorothea Cassady’s estate for 24 years.[1] Complicating matters, Dorothea’s oldest son, Ralph, the trustee of the Dorothea J. Cassady Trust, lent money to his two brothers Michael and Peter. Those loans had not been repaid when Michael died in 2001, leaving his wife Constance as successor to his interest in the trust, or before Peter declared bankruptcy in 2009. The probate court denied Ralph’s petition for repayment of these loans from sums that were part of the final distribution of Dorothea’s estate to Constance and the bankruptcy trustee for Peter’s estate on grounds including the trust contained a spendthrift provision. We affirm.
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