Even though an amendment to a trust naming several people as beneficiaries was never signed by the decedent, the would-be beneficiaries will have standing to sue for breach of contract the attorney who prepared the amendment, the state Superior Court has ruled.
On Feb. 2, a three-judge panel of the court determined that there was sufficient evidence of the decedent’s intent to add the plaintiffs as beneficiaries of a trust to sustain standing in the breach of contract claim. The ruling reverses a trial court decision that tossed the case after determining that the plaintiffs needed to be named in order to have standing as third-party beneficiaries.
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