Need to remove old property on trust and add new property. Company who prepared the trust in CA no longer exists.

If your mother used a lawyer in California, you can search for the lawyer on the State Bar website: http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member.aspx

if she used a non-lawyer, you are totally out of luck. You can also check who notarized the trust; usually it's someone who worked for the firm at that time. You can find the notary's contact information through the California Secretary of State's office: http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/notary

Since your mother is living in Texas, she needs to contact a Texas lawyer to update the trust. If it was prepared by a "trust mill" (non-lawyer), I can almost guarantee that the Texas lawyer would want to completely replace it. I urge you to spend the few extra dollars it might cost to have a licensed attorney prepare the updated trust; you've already seen the grief that using a non-lawyer can cause (since non-lawyers are not regulated).

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There are a lot of non-legal companies which help people set up trusts...especially in California. It is also common for them to go out of business. There usually aren't any worries if the Grantors are still alive and capacitated.

Typically when you move from one state to another you amend or redo the trust itself to comply with the new state's laws. In this case it seems you also have a problem with 'funding'. Funding is the process of making sure everything is in the trust, or will come to the trust at death. Any competent estate planning attorney in Texas will likely be able to help you. The fees should be based upon the actual work done since some of this is non-legal in nature.

Good Luck!

Robert