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When you set up a Living Trust, you fund the trust by transferring your assets from your name to the name of your Trust. Legally your Trust now owns all of your assets, but you manage all of the assets as the Trustee.

Trusts in California can have multiple trustees, not limited to merely two. California trust law requires that co-trustees act unanimously. If the trust instrument provides that co-trustees do not have to act unanimously, the instrument controls. The trust instrument may allocate certain powers to specific trustees.

If you're the grantor and trustee of your revocable living trust, you may also appoint someone to serve as co-trustee with you. For example, you and your spouse could be co-trustees of your family trust or joint trust. You could also name your daughter as successor trustee to take over once you pass away.

Trust beneficiary rights include: The right to a copy of the trust document. The right to be kept reasonably informed about the trust and its administration.The right to petition the court to have the trustee suspended and surcharged.

Joint Revocable Trusts can be a solid option when a married couple has a generally simple estate and when total assets (combined) don't meet the estate tax limit threshold, which is $11.58m in 2020. Keep in mind, though, that a Joint Revocable Living Trust, when not set up properly, may result in estate tax issues.

There is no limit to the number of trustees a grantor can name in a trust. There are, however, practical considerations involved with naming trustees, such as experience in trust administration, trust tax, knowledge of the trust grantor's wishes and issues that can arise when naming an individual person as trustee.

Anyone can look up a particular parcel of real estate in the local land records office (often called the county recorder or registry of deeds, depending on where you live) and find out who owns it. (Often, other information is also available, such as the amount of property taxes paid each year.)