In this instance, the spouse can change a trust after death, but only the survivor's trust, not the bypass trust. However, certain states have laws — such as California's Uniform Trust Decanting Act — that provide the spouse an avenue for altering the bypass trust.
If you want to remove your spouse as a trustee or a beneficiary after your divorce, you may amend the living trust. If you and your spouse have a joint revocable living trust, you must dissolve the trust to claim separate assets and divide marital assets.
In real estate law, "assignment" is simply the transfer of a deed of trust from one party to another.
If you want to remove your spouse as a trustee or a beneficiary after your divorce, you may amend the living trust. If you and your spouse have a joint revocable living trust, you must dissolve the trust to claim separate assets and divide marital assets.
No. divorce does not automatically revoke living trust. It is likely that you should revoke your portion of trust and create new estate plan based on intervening divorce. Precise strategy depends on terms of trust and your goals. Begin by reviewing trust, assets, goals with estate planning counsel.
Amending a trust deed is process that should be treated as requiring careful planning, consideration and intentionality. Indeed, unintended (and undesirable) consequences can flow from a purported trust amendment that has been undertaken with such consideration, such as a resettlement of the trust.
Yes, you can create a trust without your spouse. This is often done to maintain control over assets or protect inheritances for children from a prior marriage.
California Probate Code Section 16012 It provides that, if a trust has more than one trustee, each trustee has the duty to: (1) participate in the administration of the trust; and (2) take reasonable steps to prevent a co-trustee that from committing a breach of trust.