As a contingency Trust Disputes lawyer, we are in the same boat as you. Note, Trust fund fights can be very expensive and they can use your trust fund money against you to pay for it. So, on large Trust fights of a million dollars or more in dispute, we consider working on contingency. Importantly, when you are on contingency, your lawyer isn’t paid until you are. We can help you bust or break an irrevocable trust on Contingency.
We are no strangers to Busting or breaking a trust even Irrevocable ones. As a contingency Trust Dispute lawyer, we know you can usually bring a case under the following basis on good faith without invoking forfeiture clause nor no contest clause.
No Purpose for the Trust. Was its terms not defined or not understandable or ambiguous we can work to invalidate the Trust or define more favorable terms.
Trust Accounting. Importantly, despite what trustee or bank says and what the trust itself says you have a right to an accounting without risking a Forfeiture Clause.
Trusts Breach of Fiduciary Duty. Is trustee self dealing or mismanaging the trust. We can help.
Testamentary and Irrevocable Trusts procured by Fraud by fraudulent means such as undue influence or false promises or a Trusts altered or forged over the Settlor (Trust Creator) the one who funded the trust.
Trusts created by Undue Influence over the Settlor (Trust Creator ) is one of main basis bust or break a trust. Undue influence is making someone do what they would not otherwise do especially if they have diminished capacity. This can be if they were tricked, manipulated, coerced, or made to do a Will they would not otherwise. do. Did they choose their own lawyer? Who set up estate planning meeting to do the purported Trust? Did a trusted person make them leave someone out of the trust.
Trust Settlor or Trust Creator who is lacking the mental capacity to make a Trust. And thus, this is the other major reason to bust or break a Trust whether it is irrevocable or not. If the decedent had an impairment from disease that impact his cognitive function and understanding. Typically this is from such things as dementia, senility, and other illness that cause incapacity.
As a Contingency trust dispute lawyer, we take cases in Houston and around Texas.
