In In re Gruss, Shawn Gruss was appointed trustee of the Gallagher Family Trust in 2016. No. 14-25-00098-CV, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 6596 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] August 25, 2025, original proceeding). In 2020, the settlor’s son sued for a declaratory judgment regarding distributions. In October of 2024, the
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Court Affirms Contempt Order Based On A Beneficiary’s Refusal To Produce Trust Documents, Holding That The Beneficiary Had A Right To Obtain And Produce Those Documents
By David Fowler Johnson on
Posted in Cases Decided, Texas Court of Appeals
In In re Topletz, the trial court ordered a party jailed for civil contempt for failing to comply with an order to produce documents from a family-run trust during post-judgment discovery in a suit against him individually where the party contended the documents were not within his possession, custody,…