The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over the need to sign trust amendments naming beneficiaries before they have standing to sue an attorney who prepared the papers.
On Sept. 9, the justices granted allocatur in Estate of Agnew v. Ross. The two-page order said the court will focus on whether a document naming a third-party beneficiary was required before the party could bring a legal malpractice action.
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