Craighead Estate’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[t]he use of the phrase, “equally share and share alike,” in lieu of the phrase, “such issue to take the share their parent would have taken if living,” shows that [the testator] intended that in the case of the trust for his daughter [ie., the first provision] on distribution there should be an equal division of the estate per capita between the children and issue of deceased children.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Robinson Trust

2. “Immediately upon the death of my said daughter, Bertha, I direct my trustees to pay over the balance of principal of said trust fund, together with any accrued and undistributed income thereon, to such of my children as may then be living and the issue of such as may be dead, equally share and share alike.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Robinson Trust