Out-Of-Date Family Trust Varied to Recognise Same-Sex Spouses
19th September, 2016Family trusts often date back many years, and those who drafted them could not have been expected to foresee all the dramatic social changes that have happened since pen was put to paper. In one case, the High Court's intervention was required to vary a trust so that same-sex partners could be recognised as potential beneficiaries. The trust had been set up in the 1960s to preserve assets which included a stately home that had been owned by the same family for over 300 years. It made provision for spouses...