Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in California

The answer depends on your particular circumstances which are not provided in your post. With that said, I would recommend a trust in most cases.

It is difficult to understand what your question really is. If the property has been put in a trust then the trust owns the property and not the person who made the trust, so a quit claim deed from that person is not effective as they have no title to the property. Please re-ask the question giving more details.