True story. At the trust meeting, my daughter said: “She has no say.” I reached into my bag and…

designation meant it could not have been legally superseded by a signature obtained without the trustee’s knowledge or consent.

My daughter stood up.

“She manipulated him,” she said, and her voice had that edge in it, the one I had spent 40 years learning to work around. “He was sick. She took advantage.”

“I set up the trust when he was healthy,” I said,continue reading …