Fine v Fine [2012] EWHC 1811 (Ch)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | December 2012 #125

The settlors, who were husband and wife, each executed a trust deed in mirror terms in 1992, creating discretionary trusts. At the time the trust deeds were executed the settlors had only one grandchild, Maxwell. The trust deeds contained inter alia the following definition of the beneficiaries:

‘The settlor’s children, Tracey Mathew and Kitty and his [her] grandchild Maxwell, and remoter issue and the spouses, widows and widowers of such children, grandchildren and remoter issue.’

On the same date as the trust deeds were executed the settlors...