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actions and execute whatever additional documents
are reasonably necessary to accomplish the provi-
sions hereof * * *. The Probate Court * * * shall
maintain exclusive continuing jurisdiction to
resolve any disputes which shall arise during the
implementation and enforcement of the Amended Plan
and the Company-related Plan Documents. The par-
ties will seek to have a hearing on the Amended
Plan as soon as practicable after its execution.
Because, as discussed above, the Probate Court continued to
retain jurisdiction over any issues relevant to the litigation
among the children, the parties in that litigation submitted the
1997 amended and restated plan for settlement to the Probate
Court for approval. Until and unless the Probate Court approved
that plan, none of the partnerships was to be funded. On April
5, 1997, the Probate Court entered an order approving the 1997
amended and restated plan for settlement, finding it to be fair
and equitable to all of the parties to that plan and consistent
with South Carolina law.
On April 5, 1997, the children and their respective children
entered into a family settlement agreement, as provided for in
the 1997 amended and restated plan for settlement--trusts and
estate. That agreement provided in part as follows:
WHEREAS, in furtherance of an estate plan which
has been developed for Mr. and Mrs. Stone, the parties
to this Family Settlement Agreement entered into an
Amended and Restated Plan For Settlement, (the “Plan”)
[the 1997 amended and restated plan for settlement],
* * *
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Plan, the Family per-
suaded Mr. and Mrs. Stone to execute new Wills, (col-
lectively the “New Wills”) [Mr. Stone’s will executed
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