Article Archives >> Lead Stories >> April 1-15, 2010

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Dissolved Foundation Lacks
Standing to Contest Use of Gift
Court says grant did not create
either constructive or resulting trust

A charitable foundation that had been dissolved for more than a decade has no standing to challenge the use of a grant made during the 1980s, an appellate court in Florida has held.  The Court has also ruled that the grant did not create either a constructive trust or a resulting trust that was violated when the recipient of the grant modified its use.  (The Foundation for the Developmentally Disabled v. Step by Step Early Childhood Education and Therapy Center, Ct. of App., FL, Second Dist., No. 2D09-686, 3/26/10.)

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