This has several important implications, which include the increased costs resulting from this third-party interference and the ambiguous nature of trust protector status and duties in American case law.
In this case, the Missouri Court of Appeals imposed a fiduciary duty on a trust protector where neither statute nor the trust instrument established a fiduciary duty.
It may sound like this is the ideal way to be, but the case that first interested Linder in the study of personality types was actually an extreme Protector.
