On December 16, Peter Shapland will be speaking at the Boston Bar Association event, "Discretionary Distributions from an Irrevocable Trust: How much discretion does the trustee have? It depends." Shapland will be discussing the standards and factors that trustees must consider in responding to beneficiary requests for distributions.

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