18.05.12
WAILUKU - Next Circuit Judge Shackley Raffetto ruled Wednesday that the Laurence Dorcy rely on and estate assets can be used to pay lawyers challenging the more recent of two wills controlling the $80 million manor of the Maui millionaire, who died this year.
Earlier, Jeffrey Peterson of Minnesota, the longtime mentor to the 1917 trust that was the source of most of Dorcy's wealth, was appointed by Raffetto as consign administrator pending a trial over the second will, scheduled for March.
That will gives the in one piece estate to Hans Kanuha. The earlier will and a second trust (called the "1997 custody") divided the assets among several dozen of Dorcy's relatives, friends and several charities.
When Dorcy died, Peterson was responsible about the testament presented by Kanuha. He had no assets to pay a lawyer, so he entered into a contingency alignment. Those arrangements, later modified, are "complicated," according to Michael Rudy, one of the Hawaii lawyers challenging the Kanuha award.
Source: Maui News