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Trusts - Life Insurance Trusts - Contingent Unfunded Life Insurance Trust As Testamentary Disposition, Jerome K. Walsh Jr. Apr 1956

Trusts - Life Insurance Trusts - Contingent Unfunded Life Insurance Trust As Testamentary Disposition, Jerome K. Walsh Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Settlor named defendant bank beneficiary of eight insurance policies on his life. At the same time he entered into a trust agreement with the bank under which the bank was to hold the policies until the death of the settlor and, upon his death, collect the proceeds and distribute them according to one of two alternate methods of distribution. If his wife elected to reject the provisions made for her in his will and insisted on her statutory share of his estate, then the insurance proceeds were to be divided info four equal parts and paid to his four daughters. …


Basic Principles Underlying Duty Of Loyalty, Earl R. Hoover Jan 1956

Basic Principles Underlying Duty Of Loyalty, Earl R. Hoover

Cleveland State Law Review

When the nation's 25th and 47th largest banks, The Union Trust Co. and the Guardian Trust Co. of Cleveland, cracked up in 1933, Ohio's Supreme Court cracked down on the violation of an old but little known rule of fiduciary law: the duty of undivided loyalty. Airing of the principles underlying the rule seems warranted. The rule necessarily is harsh, almost iron-clad. Defenses are few. A defendant inevitably cries on the court's shoulder the same old discredited excuses. Unless the court understands the reasons for the rule, such tears may sway it. Because violation is so costly, a client needs …