How would I go about getting a trustee of a trust fund changed to someone else?

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How would I go about getting a trustee of a trust fund changed to someone else?

The trustee of my daughter’s college trust fund is in Scotland. Is there any legal means of changing it to someone else? I was the executor of the living trust ad she was the successor. They could not locate me for a couple of months or so and she took over. So when I was located since things were already in motion so I sign it over to her for her to continue. But my daughter’s trust fund (part of the living trust) named me as the trustee. So because I signed over executor to her, does over to her does that remove me as trustee to the trust fund?

Asked on February 6, 2012 under Estate Planning, California

Answers:

Neal Rimer / Neal M. Rimer, Esquire

Answered 12 years ago | Contributor

It sounds like you resigned.

 

It is possible for the Trustee to name a successor and you could be back in... assuming that the document itself gave the Trustee the flexibility to do that.  

 

You need to retain an attorney to review the document further if the answer, after reading the document, is not obvious.  You also need to read what you signed when you gave up your role as trustee to find out exactly what you did then.


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