Trust and Estates Litigation

Murray W. Camp has proven track record of successfully representing beneficiaries and trustees in fiduciary litigation.   When a family member takes control of a trust, he may not have the beneficiary’s best interest at heart.   The trustee may be failing to make distributions, mismanaging trust assets, failing to provide information, or in some cases, stealing from the trust.  The shock of realizing a trusted brother, sister, or other family member has hidden trust assets, or has thrown up obstacles in your search for truth, can be emotionally and financially devastating.  Suing a family member is a challenging decision.  We can help you find peace. 

In these circumstances, we engage to protect the rights of the beneficiary, and to hold the fiduciary accountable.   The fiduciary duties owed by a trustee are substantial – often the highest standard of conduct imposed by civil law – and may give rise to a range of strong remedies, including denial of the trustee’s compensation, removal of the trustee, constructive trusts against wrongfully transferred assets, surcharge of attorney’s fees, and disgorgement of profits or benefits received by the trustees.  Executors in probate estates are generally held to the same standard of conduct as trustees. 

The firm’s principal, Murray W. Camp, is routinely hired to prosecute will contest lawsuits involving a testator’s lack of capacity or where a frail or infirm family member has been unduly influenced or signed a will without the mental capacity to do so.  Having successfully prosecuted complex will contest claims in multiple courts in Dallas, Denton, Collin and surrounding counties, Murray knows that when a client has strong reason to believe that they should have been received a deceased’s property under a will – but didn’t – the client is usually right.