172 W. Va. 546 - Davis v. KB & T CO.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
3
states following
June 1992
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Newman v. Dore · 73 Ill. 2d 342 - Johnson v. La Grange State Bank · Lines v. Lines · Whittington v. Whittington · Merz v. Tower Grove Bank & Trust Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“[c]ourts from other jurisdictions which have considered the validity of an inter vivos trust, attacked as a fraud upon the rights of a spouse, have generally recognized ‘that the settlor’s intention or purpose to deprive his or her spouse of a distributive share or other statutory right in the property transferred is not, in and of itself, sufficient to establish a fraudulent intent on the settlor’s part....’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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