{"id":262631,"date":"2026-01-02T02:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/262631\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:02:15","slug":"read-the-full-court-decision-concerning-the-demoulas-family-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/262631\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the full court decision concerning the Demoulas family trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/12\/18\/business\/arthur-demoulas-market-basket-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/12\/18\/business\/arthur-demoulas-market-basket-trial\/\">the future leadership of their Market Basket grocery store chain<\/a> hangs in the balance, members of the Demoulas family are also waging a different internal war \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/12\/31\/business\/market-basket-trial-demoulas-wealth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/12\/31\/business\/market-basket-trial-demoulas-wealth\/\">this one over the family trust<\/a> that will determine how their wealth is distributed to the next generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">In February, judge Terri Klug Cafazzo ruled in one of the family\u2019s probate cases that Frances D. Kettenbach should be named a co-trustee of the T.A.D. Family Trust over the objections of her brother, Arthur, who was later ousted as Market Basket\u2019s CEO. Arthur T. Demoulas has said he will appeal the probate decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Read the full ruling below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagline | font_primary inline_block  margin_top_32\">Dana Gerber can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/12\/31\/business\/demoulas-family-trust-market-basket\/mailto:dana.gerber@globe.com\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:.5px\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dana.gerber@globe.com<\/a>. Follow her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/danagerber6\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:.5px\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@danagerber6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the future leadership of their Market Basket grocery store chain hangs in the balance, members of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[79,18,19,17,134922,3116,134923,234,235,2459,134924],"class_list":{"0":"post-262631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-joe-schmidt-cq","13":"tag-ma","14":"tag-market-basket","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-personalfinance","17":"tag-reading","18":"tag-tom-gordon-cq"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115823046987499207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}