The applicant beneficiary sought to remove her aunt as the estate trustee, alleging mismanagement, hostility, and the wrongful transfer of the deceased's vehicle to herself.
The court declined to remove the estate trustee, finding that her mistakes did not endanger the trust property and that removal is a remedy of last resort.
Instead, the court imposed terms on the trustee's future administration of the estate's real property.
However, the court found that the estate trustee failed to prove the deceased made a valid inter vivos gift of the vehicle, ordering its return to the estate.
