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education and support" of the surviving spouse. Upon the
death of the surviving spouse, the trust was to cease and
the cotrustees were directed to distribute the balance of
the trust estate to the testator's two sons or their living
issue. In 1982, the decedent executed a codicil that
amended his 1978 will by changing the last successor
trustee and the last successor executor but made no change
in the substantive provisions of the will.
Mr. Clark also prepared the wills that the decedent
and Mrs. Rapp executed on July 9, 1986 (the 1986 wills).
These wills revoked the 1978 wills but were substantively
the same, with only minor changes in language and form, and
with changes in the identity of successor executors and
alternate trustees. The decedent's and Mrs. Rapp's 1986
wills were identical to one another in all material
aspects.
Like the 1978 wills, the 1986 wills provide that all
of the household furniture and furnishings, clothing,
personal effects, and automobiles of the testator are given
to the surviving spouse. All other property of the
testator is given to the testator's two sons, Richard Rapp
and David Rapp, to be held in trust during the life of the
surviving spouse. The trustee of the trust is given the
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