Why are the legal fees for a ‘revocable trust’ based on the estate asset value if a ‘living trust’ is designed to avoid probate?

You ask why legal fees are based on assets. Sometimes they are and sometimes they aren't, depending on the agreement between the trustee or...

Ihave a trust fund/Estate.It was from my Mother.It's in my Aunts name now. If I get divorced will my husband get any?

In most (or perhaps all) states, inherited property is not considered a marital asset subject to division in a divorce. But you must keep it...

I want to be very frank and candid here. There is no revocable trust in the planet that has anything to do with avoiding capital gains tax. In...

I think my colleagues were reading your question to indicate that you were describing a testamentary irrevocable trust like a Family "B" Trust or...

My colleagues have provided appropriate counsel. Trustees have fiduciary duties to the trust and its beneficiaries, and have civil, even...

The highest duty under American law is the duty of a trustee to the beneficiaries of a trust. If the trustee breaches that duty, the trustee is...

AM I ENTITLED TO A COPY OF THE WILL?

Jim Frederick has give you one of us usually spot-on answers. Let me add a couple of thoughts. You, your sister and your brother need to be...

Can a trustee enrich one beneficiary and not the other 2 ?

Issues like this are a matter of perspective and proportionality. As Jim has said, is this worth fighting about? During administration, the...

Powers of Attorney cease to have any power at death, so whether or not he had a POA is irrelevant. Under the terminology of the law, a person...

My father was put in an alzheimers unit. Proceeds from sale?

And apparently your sister is not the agent under your father's Power of Atttorney, and therefore has no authority to do anything with dad's money...