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How to Remove or Replace a Trustee
Knowing how to remove or replace a trustee comes down to what the trust document allows. Thomas Kopelman and Anne Rhodes cover why clients change trustees, from aging relatives to a corporate trustee that no longer fits. Then the mechanisms: a simple amendment to a revocable trust, trustee appointer and trust protector roles, and the court petition older documents leave as the only route. They also explain the release of liability a departing corporate trustee may ask a client to sign. And they cover when moving trusteeship out of California can reduce a trust's state income tax. Whether a…
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