Is a trustee entitled to indemnification from the estate of a deceased?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Chalmers v Chalmers Alter Ego Trust, 2018 BCSC 336 (CanLII):
Even so, where a trustee acts unreasonably or in his or her own self-interest, the trustee is not entitled to indemnification from the estate: Brown v. Rigsby, 2016 ONCA 521 at para. 14.
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