WEST PATERSON PASSAIC COUNTY NEW JERSEY DIVORCE LAWYER TRUSTS & ESTATES

The daughter of an heir to the Jell-O fortune, who spent 14 years looking for her birth mother, is not entitled to a multimillion-dollar share of two disputed trusts, according to New York's highest court. In the disputed trusts decision, the court reversed the Appellate Division, finding that the law in effect when the trusts were executed does not imply the right of an adopted-out child to share in a class gift. The unanimous court also found that public policy precludes office manager Elizabeth McNabb, 52, from receiving shares of two trusts created to benefit her birth mother's "descendants" and "living children."    Matter of the Accounting by Fleet Bank. Court of Appeals, March 21, 2008     <http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/decisions/mar08/27opn08.pdf>