Category: Property Law
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When Irrevocable Trusts Cause Irrevocable Family-Feuds: Murdoch Family Feuds in Probate Court Over Eventual Control of Media Empire
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In loving memory of David F. Sigler, on his birthday.He will be celebrated forever and always. Rupert Murdoch (“Murdoch”), the head of Fox News and the News Corp. empire, is in a courtroom battle against three of his children to amend his irrevocable trust.[1] The trust, created after Murdoch’s second divorce decades ago, controls what…