Trustee of a Family Trust
The call comes, a parent is gone, and somewhere in the grief you learn that you are the trustee. Not a beneficiary waiting for a share - the person now legally responsible for the whole family trust. No one trained you. You do not know what you are allowed to do, what you can pay yourself, whether to sell the house, or how to answer the sibling who has already started asking what you are hiding. A...
The call comes, a parent is gone, and somewhere in the grief you learn that you are the trustee. Not a beneficiary waiting for a share - the person now legally responsible for the whole family trust. No one trained you. You do not know what you are allowed to do, what you can pay yourself, whether to sell the house, or how to answer the sibling who has already started asking what you are hiding. A...
