CLE Programs

This program will provide a general overview of the relevant statutes of limitations applicable to estate and trust matters, when they apply, and how they work. Our faculty will then focus on two recent decisions by the Supreme Judicial Court.

In Gates v. Reilly, 453 Mass. 460 (2009), the SJC discussed the one-year statute of limitations applicable to claims by creditors of an estate (Mass. G.L. ch. 197, § 9) and the grounds for obtaining relief therefrom under Mass. G.L. ch. 197, § 10. In O'Connor v. Redstone, 453 Mass. 460 (2008), the SJC discussed when the three-year statute of limitations on a claim for breach of fiduciary duty against a trustee begins to run, and raised related issues concerning successor trustee liability for breaches of fiduciary duties by predecessor trustees.