Whoever handles your estate must be trustworthy. A successor trustee to a revocable trust has a strict set of instructions that he or she must follow. As the successor trustee to my mother's trust it was easy to pay the bills and distribute the money without questions or demands from my siblings.
Don't name a trust company or bank trust department as the successor trustee. They move slowly and charge large fees. Use them or estate lawyers in an advisory capacity only, if needed. A revocable trust is only revocable by the maker. When the maker dies the instructions in the trust are set in stone. This is the way to go.
Creating the trust is not expensive. I recommend lawyer Any Pittman in Oxford.
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