Date Filed: April 28, 2021 Case Number: C084083 Court: California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District The Court holds that a spendthrift trust is not immune from a Family Code section 2030 award of attorney’s fees in a dissolution proceeding; the trustee may be compelled to pay fees incurred to join the trust as a third party even absent a showing of bad-faith conduct. By reversing the family court’s denial, the decision clarifies that debts arising from the administration of a trust–such as litigation costs–are enforceable against the trust estate despite spendthrift provisions.
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