MARGARET DE MILLE, Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent, v. CARLA BELGRANO RAMSEY, Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant; MICHELE RAMSEY, Defendant and Appellant

Holding

The court held that a mutual agreement between two sisters to share equally in their inheritance, notwithstanding the terms of their mother’s will, was enforceable against the proceeds of a testamentary spendthrift trust created for one sister’s benefit, and that the judgment ordering the beneficiary sister to pay half of all distributions received did not violate the trust’s anti-alienation provisions or defeat the testator’s intent.