Chapter 14 - THE TRUST IS CREATED
Settlement avoided years of litigation.
Sophie’s descendant trust was funded with the 6% economic interest.
Missed distributions:
repaid with agreed interest.
Independent corporate trustee appointed.
Diane removed as trustee of descendant matters.
She retained:
her personal shares,
board seat,
estate income rights.
No lose-everything fantasy.
The company did not collapse.
Michael stayed.
Ethan stayed.
Governance improved.
No one declared Sophie future CEO.
That would repeat the same mistake in reverse.
She was a toddler.
Her trust gave her:
economic protection,
future opportunity,
not a predetermined life.
Noah remained loved.
No one took anything from him.
That mattered too.
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Diane had tried to create a competition between children who had never asked for one.
The settlement ended that fiction.
