Section 6.56 Persons With Standing

• Library: Trusts and Powers 2013 Supp

B. (§6.56) Persons With Standing

Basically, if the trust contest is successful, anyone entitled to receive the trust assets has standing to bring the trust contest action. This would include:

· a beneficiary (McKenzie v. Mo. Stables, 34 S.W.2d 136
(Mo. App. E.D. 1930));

· the settlor’s heirs or devisees and the personal representative of the settlor’s estate (Atl. Nat’l Bank of Jacksonville, Fla. v. St. Louis Union Trust Co., 211 S.W.2d 2 (Mo. 1948)); and

· contingent heirs or alternate takers upon the...