What is the duty of a Trustee to keep a co-trustee fully informed?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Creighton Estate (Re), 2016 NSSC 136 (CanLII):
More recently, in Bronson v. Hewitt, 2010 BCSC 169, varied on other grounds, Goepel, J. reiterated the responsibilities on co-trustees as described in Fales, stating that a “trustee has a duty to keep a co-trustee as fully informed as possible” (para. 464).
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