Court Opinion

ID: 9687028
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 16:14:04.777193+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:23.784412
License: Public Domain

White, C. Thomas, J.,
dissenting.
I would reverse. I agree that the intervener does not have a “direct and immediate interest” in this dissolution proceeding so as to require intervention as a matter of right. § 25-328, R. R. S. 1943.
However, in view of the rather checkered course of trust administration especially where, as here, substantial evidence exists of misappropriation of trust funds, the assertion of the trustees that it should be their exclusive right to nominate beneficiaries is rather tenuous.
It may well be that the statutory framework and the budgetary realities do not permit the Attorney General an ongoing supervision of charitable trusts, but the result is that until dissolution by court procedure, no representation of the public interest is effected.
In view of the unique posture of the participants in this case, it was an abuse of discretion not to allow intervention by the applicant the Lutheran Family and Social Service of Nebraska, Inc.