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On October 4, 2013, Matthew Rossiter obtained a favorable jury verdict for their clients overturning three amendments to a trust with assets valued at approximately $1.9 million.  The plaintiffs in this case were a brother and sister from Troy, Missouri, who were completely cut out of their grandmother’s revocable trust following their own father’s death.  The grandmother’s trust assets included a substantial amount of farm acreage as well as monetary assets.  As a result of three amendments to the grandmother’s trust, all of her assets went to her one remaining son, who is the plaintiffs’ uncle.

Matthew Rossiter filed suit on behalf of the plaintiffs against their uncle seeking to have the three trust amendments thrown out and have their clients returned as one-half beneficiaries under the trust.  After a four day jury trial in Lincoln County, Missouri, the jury returned a verdict throwing out all three of the trust amendments, and returning the plaintiffs to their position as trust beneficiaries.