My husband and I have a trust set up for grandchildren.  A new child (not grand child) has come along and we want to be sure she is taken care of and we need to change things. Do we need to hire a lawyer again or can we do it by a notorized document with latest date on it?
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The most current legal document is recognized by the court in most states. You can call the clerk of court (family court) to verify this for your county or state. There are plenty of on-line forms or forms that you can buy that you can complete and have notarized and witnessed. You can ammend a form to make null and void, any and all documents dated previous to (then add the current date of the document). Again, check with the clerk of court, as they will have the most accurate information.
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You do NOT want to take any property out of the trust.  This type of situation is the main reason that you have a living trust.  If your grandmother is incapacitated and cannot make financial decisions, than more than likely there is a provision in the trust for the successor trustee to take over as the trustee.  If she is not incapacitated, but she does not want to or can't make the financial decisions than she can resign as the trustee and appoint a new trustee to handle her affairs.\n\nI can't stress this enough, before you do anything, you need to take the trust document to an attorney, preferably the attorney that wrote the trust and get some advice.
359405
Contact the attorney who drafted the living trust.  Attorney's keep copies for their files.  Then take the copy to the Clerk's Office and let them know that you received the copy from the attorney who drafted the living trust since the original can not be located.  Good Luck!!!
37732
Simple!\nAsk any legal secretary or, copy a similar statute, for the form you need....
104853
The court -- specifically, the judge -- should stop her from dragging her feet.  Apparently you were notified of the opening of probate.  So you have a case number and the address of the court.  You don't need a lawyer to write a letter to the judge, expressing basically what your concerns are, and send a cc (courtesy copy; used to mean "carbon copy" in the ancient of days) to the executor and/or her lawyer, if she has one.  If she does have one, that name will be in the upper left corner of the notice you received.\n\nGood luck!
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Get a lawyer, if they is no will, you can protest it in court, and a judge will usually give all to the spouse or divide equally between all.  Usually once someone contest legally, and request the will, it will be provided.  Most wills are done by lawyers, who retain a copy of it, just for this purpose.  Sometimes they are even entered as a matter of public record at the court house.  If you know grandpa's normal lawyer, you could ask him.  Just be prepared, this will end up a big old stink, but alas, dead's in the family usually are.
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Law Depot.com has any template for any legal document that you ever will need.  When i came across it i put it in my fav for the day when i will need it..glad i could help someone with it. good luck..ps. it may cost a few dollars ...you know that nothing on here is free.
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I work in a bank and what u should do is have your mum contact a solicitor and have her give you / someone she trusts rights over her affairs. It is called the Power Of Attorney. If your mum is ill her doctor can sign a form saying that she is incapable of looking after her own affairs, and should that day come then the "power of attorney" will have authority over all your mums assets. This is why it is important that it be someone she trusts. There is no need to change all of her things into someone elses name. What I would recommend is that your mum's will be kept up to date so that should THAT day come all of her assets will be divided up as she would have wished.
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anytime a court issues an order to you consider it like ur own little personal set of laws... if someone breaks one of the orders of the court then they can be charged with contempt of court...\n\nIn order for the trustee  to get in trouble significant paper work must exist document every little thing they do.. if u feel that ur trust is in danger u may need to hire an attorney to look into the mater for u
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you can send them a letter cc to a lawyer as well.That will set them .....
83312
It is strongly recommended that you used an attorney, but not legally necessary.  An attorney can customize the forms to suit you needs and answer any questions you might have.  An attonrey will make sure the the forms are properly witnessed or notarized.  The attorney can ask important questions that you might not have thought about and has experience to help you avoid common mistakes.
198619
No, you won't need a tax ID number for the trust. It will carry the ID of the person who set up the trust (trustee usually).\nIf the trust will be generating income by, for example, receiving rental income, it might need one.\n\nBottom line:  see an estate attorney.
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Call the lawyer who did his will.  If your husband is in the will, he has a right to read it. They should send you a copy of it.
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In many states, this is called a Guardian Ad Litem.  I've acted as one in two cases.  Normally, the lawyers won't have much say-so as to who gets appointed.  The judge keeps a list of attorneys that do this and he normally assigns them randomly.\n\nThe premise is that this attorney will have no bias one way or the other and can truly recommend to the court what the best interests of the child are.
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Just because you had the agreement notarized does not make it enforceable as a promissory note.\n\nIf he left a forwarding address, you can get it by sending him a letter with the words "address service requested" on the envelope. The USPO will send you the new address.\n\nIf he didn't, but has a published telephone number in his name, you can find him by any of several "white pages" service available online.\n\nIf neither of those works, sue him anyway, get service by publication. The judgment will be good for 10 or 20 years, whereas the note - if it is enforceable - may not be enforceable after 3 to 5 years, depending on your state's statute of limitations.
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Get ahold of a lawyer who does adoptions. He will write up a petition for adoption and run it in the local newspaper in the town where you last knew that your ex lived (if you don't know where he is at now...then just have them run it in your local newspaper). It has to run for 4 weeks (regardless as to whether it is a daily or weekly paper) and if he doesn't respond to it to contest it, then the lawyer will get a date set on the courts docket and you will go to court and the judge will grant the adoption by default. New birth certificates will be made up and they will replace the original ones, although they will staple it over the original at the state capital Vital Statistics. You will receive the new Birth certificates with you and new hubby's names as birth parents and the kids will have his last name as if they were born that way.\nCongratulations and Good Luck!!!!
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Check with the probate court, I picked up the papers from them when I applied for guardianship of my nephew. Ours is at the town hall. I did have to have them notarized, and banks aren't willing to do it, so I had a lawyer's secretary who was a notary do it. It was pretty cheap, and easy. The biggest expense was filing the papers -$150.00