Although California and Indiana both generally enforce spendthrift trusts, the law of both states allow creditors to collect from the trust’s assets when required by strong public policy–for example, to pay child support owed by the spendthrift beneficiary.  This decision holds that under the law of both states, the trust’s assets are accessible to pay attorney fees that an opposing party incurred in a family law proceeding successfully defending against the trust’s challenge to the court’s personal jurisdiction over it.  (See Fam. Code 2030 (allowing fee awards in family law cases where needed to allow a party to secure legal representation)