District Court of Appeal of Florida

A personal representative has standing to claim for a trust accounting as a beneficiary, and not just as a creditor, where the settlor and the estate are, essentially, the same party.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/11/2006
• Published 10/11/2006

Judges

• STONE, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael A. Dribin of Broad and Cassel, Miami, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew Triggs and Stephanie Reed Traband of Proskauer Rose LLP, Boca Raton, and Hal Neier of Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP, New York, for appellees Betty Godley and Lawrence Newman., Juan C. Antunez of Stokes McMillan & Maracini, P.A., Miami, and Steven J. Fink of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, New York, for appellees The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation.