Should you name your kids as Co-Trustees

Naming your kids as co-trustees means that they must act together. If down the road they can’t agree or cooperate in making decisions then there is a deadlock. Absent some way of resolving a deadlock in the trust agreement, eventually this trust will end up in a court dispute between the two co-trustees. Examples of a dispute are where one child want to sell real estate and the other doesn’t. This often occurs where one of the children is still residing in the property.

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