A big welcome to The Basics of Trust Administration -- California.

If you were named as successor trustee of a trust, and were expected to act as trustee tomorrow, would you know what to do? If you're like most people, you would be overwhelmed with just trying to figure out what you are supposed to do and have no idea how to do it. You would therefore immediately retain an attorney (at a substantial cost to the trust) to assist you in the routine tasks of administration. However, a trustee that is provided with the proper tools doesn't need an attorney for those routine "nuts and bolts" tasks.

This book is one of those "proper tools". It is intended to provide a procedural roadmap to a non-professional successor trustee of a trust and to enable the trustee to more easily navigate a simple trust administration. Some of the information may also be helpful to those persons who have created a trust for themselves and want to be sure their trust is funded correctly.