Does a fiduciary have an obligation to employ a testator's son-in-law in the family business?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from Estate of Wilder, Matter of, 141 Misc.2d 659, 533 N.Y.S.2d 838 (N.Y. Surr. Ct. 1988):
This principle was extended in Hughes v. Hiscox, 110 Misc. 141, 181 N.Y.S. 395, to a direction that the fiduciary employ testator's son-in-law in the family business.
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