(DOWNLOAD) "In re Olson" by In the Court of Appeals of the State of Washington Division One * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: In re Olson
- Author : In the Court of Appeals of the State of Washington Division One
- Release Date : January 03, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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In construing instruments creating trusts, our purpose is to ascertain the intent of the settlors and to effectuate that intent. We determine the intent of the settlors primarily from the terms of the trust instrument -construing all its provisions together. Here, the trust provisions regarding the disposition of the North Dakota farm property at the death of John J. Olson (Jack), one of the trust settlors, are ambiguous. Construing the trust instrument as a whole, we conclude that the farm property should not be distributed to his sons by a prior marriage upon his death. Rather, it should remain in trust for the benefit of Georgia E. Olson, his surviving spouse, the other settlor of the trust.