Advice? Find a GOOD lawyer who has experience in these matters. My wife's mother just passed (father passed years ago). Both parents had put the entire estate into a trust years before he passed. Now my wife (and the rest of the siblings) is faced with basically dissolving the trust and distributing the assets. It's been a total and complete pain. I don't consider myself an idiot but I still, after six months, don't understand how the trust was formed, why it was formed the way it was, and how to treat it now. The family retained a lawyer and he is navigating the maze. Best I can do.