Sibling rivalry leads to probate case and lawsuit over trust money? Florida is not alone in undue influence lawsuits in probate court between siblings. So, here is an Illinois Appellate Court, 2nd District case issued on June 17, 2015, 2015 IL App (2d) 140985-U, Trackman v. Michela, No. 2-14-0985, Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lake County, IL. If you are involved in a Palm Beach estate case of undue influence, or your sister or brother committed tortious interference with your expectancy of an inheritance, you may want to read this June 2015 undue influence probate lawsuit involving family money and mother’s revocable living trust.
Probate Court Erred in Dismissing Tortious Interference with Expectation of an Inheritance Case
- Plaintiff, a brother sued his sister for undue influence
- The sister was also trustee of his mom’s revocable living trust
- Brother claimed that sister put undue influence on mother to remove brother as abeneficiary of mother’s trust
- Getting written out of a revocable living trust by a sister? Sounds like a Palm Beach probate lawsuit
Mom’s Living Trust at Center of Undue Influence Case by Brother vs. Sister
- Mom died in 2009
- Brother not only sues his sister over his inheritance and the revocable trust, but he alsosued his sister’s children !
- What did brother claim in his probate lawsuit?
- Estate and trust claims of tortious interefence with an expectation of an inheritance,undue influence and rescission
- As of 1987, brother and sister were supposed to inherit their parents’ money half half, 50%-50%
- Did sister act wrongly depriving brother of his inheritance?
- Did sister deceive and manipulate mother into signing estate documents that excluded brother?
- Did sister cause her parents to cut out her brother as a trust beneficiary so she couldinherit the whole estate?
- For the trust language which was at issue in this trust lawsuit or trust litigation lawsuit case, and for the allegations back and forth, consider reading the entire opinion
- It will shed some light on what a brother sister undue influence case or a tortious interference with an expectancy of an inheritance lawsuit might look like if you are thinking about suing your sister or brother in a Palm Beach probate