Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in California
What if you lose your original trust document?
What can you do if you lose your
original trust document?
3 Answers from Attorneys
Re: What if you lose your original trust document?
The attorney who drafted it should have a copy, so that you can resign a new original. Contact him/her. Worst case scenario, you can redo the whole thing, revoking all prior trusts (but makes sure you fund the new trust).
Re: What if you lose your original trust document?
You can simply make another and say in it that it is an amendment to your prior trust.
Re: What if you lose your original trust document?
A trust is a contract. The original is not necessary If the terms of the trust are in doubt, or its validity, or the accuracy of a copy, then the issue can be decided in a Declaratory Relief action and the copy can be proved up once the evidentiary requirements are met.
Contact a lawyer to pursue the specifics.
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