Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in California

One must always look at the exact language of the document in issue. Without doing that, if the language merely says a party loses their benefits if they contest the Trust, a refusal to agree to something that benefits the trustee only abut not the Trust clealy is not contesting the Trust. Contesting it means to take an affirmative act [not responding to something done by the trustee] to change or eliminate the Trust.

Has the attorney taken out a bond to cover his illegally taking any money from the trust? If the Trust waived the bond he does not have to take it out. The fact that he wants everyone to agree not to act if he makes bad investments implies that he has already lost a substantial sum of money. Some of the beneficiaries must immediately write him demanding a current accounting and then visit him in his Office to find out what the status of the Trust funds is. If you want to remove the Trustee you have to go to court to have the substitute trustee appointed if you can not work out a deal with the current one. It sounds as though he should be removed. Try to get all the beneficiaries to agree to a common action but they should not wait to act.