Assignment task:
In 1985, a and his friend, z, created In 1995, a man and his friend created a corporation. The man owned 55% of the stock, and the friend owned 45% of the stock. When the man died in 2005, he left all of his stock in the corporation to his wife. In 2009, the wife died. Under her duly probated will, the wife bequeathed the stock her husband had left her to a testamentary trust and named her husband's friend as trustee. Under the wife's will, the trustee was required to distribute all trust income to the wife's son "for so long as he shall live or until such time as he shall marry" and, upon the son's death or marriage, to distribute the trust principal to a designated charity. The stock, valued at $500,000 at the wife's death, comprised the only asset of this trust. In 2013, after the stock's value had risen to $1.5 million, the trustee's lawyer properly advised the trustee to sell the stock in order to comply with the state's prudent investor act. Because of this advice, the trustee decided to sell the stock. However, instead of testing the market for potential buyers, the trustee.