Michigan Caselaw Update

Robert P. Tiplady (Attorney at law, Dykema Gossett PLLC) has published his article entitled Trusts and Estates, 52 Wayne L. Rev. 1019 (2006).

Tiplady explains that: “[f]our decisions in the trusts and estates area were rendered during this Survey period. One decision concerned the permissible scope of the exercise of a power of appointment. Another concerned the effect of a principal’s death on the completed actions of an agent under a durable power of attorney. The two remaining decisions concerned the rights of a pretermitted spouse and a surviving incapacitated spouse, respectively, to elect against the deceased spouse’s estate.