<div dir="ltr"><div>Happy New Year!</div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone used a trust protector in a living trust to approve or disapprove amendments or revocation of the living trust by the surviving grantor? </div><div><br></div><div>I've used trust protectors to make management or distribution decisions in an irrevocable trust, but never have done so to oversee the grantor's exercise of his/her power to amend and revoke a living trust. For some reason this feels "off" to me and wondered what others think about this approach to protecting a potentially vulnerable, but not incapacitated, surviving grantor from being taken advantage of after the death of the first spouse/grantor? </div><div><br></div><div>What if the trust protector is also a beneficiary? My reading of 11.98B.030(2)(d)(i) seems to prohibit this.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you in advance for your thoughts.</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#45818e" face="georgia, serif"><b>Laura Latta<br>Law Office of Laura Latta PLLC</b><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666" face="georgia, serif">she/her</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:13.15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Phone (206) 841-2344</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666" face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.LauraLatta.com" target="_blank">www.LauraLatta.com</a></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:13.15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666" face="georgia, serif">PO Box 82356</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:13.15pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666" face="georgia, serif">Kenmore, WA 98028</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#134f5c"><u></u> </font><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#444444">NOTICE:  This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by replying to this email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying it or disclosing its contents to others.</font></b></p></div></div></div></div></div>