AC47071 - Spinnato v. Boyd ("The defendant Charles Bruno appeals from the judgment of the trial court, rendered after a bench trial, in favor of the plaintiff Catherine Spinnato on the plaintiff's request for a declaratory judgment in the operative complaint and on the defendant's operative counterclaim. On appeal, the defendant claims that the court erred in (1) construing the word 'liquidate' in the trust instrument to require neither the sale nor the distribution of the trust property within one year of the death of the decedent, Nancy A. Bruno (decedent), (2) ruling against him on one of his claims for breach of fiduciary duty, (3) refusing to impute knowledge of the terms of the trust to the plaintiff, and (4) declining to rule simultaneously on the plaintiff's claim for reimbursement of attorney's fees and, instead, ordering additional proceedings to be held on that issue. For the reasons that follow, we disagree with the defendant's first, second, and fourth claims and deem the defendant's third claim to be abandoned as inadequately briefed. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.")