Morgan v. Winslow CA4/3
Amy Winslow appeals from the trial court’s denial of her motion for a new trial and from the underlying trial court judgment approving petitions by Mary E. Morgan (Morgan) to approve three accountings she performed as the successor trustee of Robert W. Rieniets’s Separate Property Trust (the trust). Morgan and Winslow are two among several of the deceased settlor’s grandchildren, each entitled under the trust to a two and one-half (2.5) percent share of trust assets, while the bulk of the trust (85 percent) went to other beneficiaries. Only Winslow objected to Morgan’s accountings, and she points to nothing in the record to show she did so timely under the trust’s 90-day window for written objections. On appeal, Winslow raises a host of issues, including challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the trial court’s decision to approve the accountings and to impose $60,059.33 in sanctions against her. (See Prob. Code, § 17211, subd. (a) [providing for sanct
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