Contempt of Court: A Primer

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2021/06/11/contempt-of-court-a-primer/  [..]

California law has long recognized a settlor’s right to restrict a beneficiary’s use of trust assets. Restraints on alienation, spendthrift clauses, shutdown clauses and wholly discretionary trusts are a few of the tools settlors may use when creating a trust for the benefit of someone likely to have creditor problems.

In his article for Bloomberg Tax, HBH Principal Andrew Verriere examines the California Court of Appeal’s Breslin v. Breslin decision and the expanded authority of trial courts in trust proceedings.