Trust Language Isn’t Set in Stone — Should the Nurse Get the Apartment? Maybe. The Trustee Has Standing to Argue She Should Via Reforming the Language of the Trust. Cecilia Reid was Edgar Sonder’s nurse for several years. Being a responsible man, Edgar Sonder created a “pour over” trust in May 2000, naming himself as trustee. (A “pour over” trust is a trust that is funded by assets “pouring over” from an estate, and is a common vehicle used in estate planning.) Later, Mr. Sonder amended the trust, naming Nurse Reid as its sole successor trustee. The trust in its final version (Edgar Sonder amended the document twice before he died) included instructions on how his assets were to be distributed; several gifts were itemized. First, $31,000 was to be distributed among ten different charities (Art. II, section 1); second, and importantly, after the first gifts were completed, $125,000 was […]