To me it sounds like the trust document rules are a big part of the problem.
Is there anyway to contact the original atty that helped set it up?
Maybe it can be broken or a work around done.

let me try again . . .
 

Dear Ginnie -

I agree with Jo*mar. If the attorney that set up the trust can be of any help, that would be GREAT.

And I also understand how hard this must be on you. And how depressed you must be. And that my last set of questions must have been overwhelming.

But please, if the attorney who drafted the trust can't or won't help, and you need me to try be of some assistance, then see if you can answer just two of my last three questions, as broken down and rephrased into three hopefully clearer requests for information/clarification:

(1) Has a conservator has been appointed for you?

(2) Does the SSDI money go first to you and into your account when issued by the government, or to someone else, such as your son?

(3) If if you know, do the trust documents say anything specific about how property taxes and/or insurance will be paid on the house and whose responsibility it is to do so?

And then finally, when you say the family makes a decision or takes a vote, just how is it that it's binding on you? Or what may be another way of getting at the same thing, Who is the trustee (administrator) of your mother's trust?

And once more, if you are not comfortable answering this in the forum, which is freely available to outside internet users and/or search engines, feel free to send me a private message (PM).

But please, if the attorney who drafted the trust isn't going to be of any help, try to answer these questions, as best you can. Thanks!

Mike

Hello Michael
 

The trust was to pay for my taxes and to keep me in this home should I fail. The Gov. would not let me keep those funds from the trust no matter how it was worded. They would let me keep no monies at all if there was any way for them to benefit me, which they did. I ran out of money due to all my medical problems in 09. That was the last year I could pay my taxes. The SSDI check is $440. I don't care who hears it. I pay 400 to my son to pay him back for last years taxes, and of course to pay him back for this years. I now will never be able to pay my taxes, much less insurace which was cancelled.
The lawyer who made the trust had no idea of anything related to the social services agencies. what he made was a document that held me to a trust which the gov. said I could not keep. but must use until all funds are below @2,000. Only then did I get SSDI in 2010. I had been paying the 20% of all my bills before that. I could not get medicaid until funds were gone. You loose your coverage if you fail to pay the 20% of medicare so I did, no choice if I want treatment. So the trust only has my house in it now. The attorney who helped me to get my benefits, determined how much rent I would need to pay, in order to get my food stamps, a decent amount, and pay back my son for the taxes. I can't afford it here, and have not been able too since I became disabled in 2003. The trust was meant for taxes not to support me. Mom thought that If I worked hard and put into the system, that when I fail the system would help me. That did not occur. The trust has been used against me from its conception, and I have proof that is not what my mother wanted for me. The lawyer who wrote it wont help because I now have no money. Believe me he got lots of money for the trust and health documents he wrote for me. He refused to help when I ran out, and contested some of the stuff he put in there. He also made my trust based on what I was able to do according to my mothers trust. I tried to by-pass aaron and shannon, my daughter and son-in law, because they remeoved me from their lives. If nothing else, this home will go to my good son, and no profit will go to my daughter and her husband. they already got enough from my mother. No conservator was ordered, none mentioned to me. Hope that helps with your questions, it is all a mess. ginnie

Hi sonny
 

I am dissapointed in my son. right around the time I started to look for legal help he became depressed. I live with those demons so I know what he feels like. He is caught up in this trust too, and will inherrit this home if I should have to leave it. I will dump the whole thing on him and he isnt so happy about it. Both his sister and father oppose me for god knows what their reasons are. I don't want to drown where I live, these storms are bad sometimes as up north has found out. I have no house insurance, I was cancelled, and I have since been begging my family to let me move out of harms way. Evidently me being in harms way, has no effect on my up north family who doesn't speak to me. Me being in trouble has no effect at all. They will not speak to me about the situation at all. All conversation has been through my son, who is in contact with that side of the family. I have been told, no I may not move, and it is OK that I loose all I have. They don't care, all they care about is who gets this place. I have done what I can but that only happens upon my death. Until my death, my mothers trust remains intact, until I can break the trust. I have been told that that is impossible, nothing is impossible if true injustice has occured. What has been done to me is out right wrong of my family to do to me. I couldn't help becoming disabled nor could I help that the insurance was cancelled. My mother wrote a trust to a loving family at the time. That family was cancelled out when my daughter married her husband and he got a copy of the trust. Thats really what happened, just greed in its purest form. ginnie

greedy attorney
 

The attorney who wrote the trust did it without knowledge of how the social agencies work. He represents my mother, and will do nothing to help me, other than charge for me to write my own trust. He is perfect and thinks he wrote a good document. the document s_cks. It is ambigitious according to three attorneys that looked at it. Nobody would touch it that for sure, much less work for somebody who is out of money. My church attorney was the last to look at it, and told me it was awful. ginnie

Hi Jo mar
 

Hi Jo mar, thanks for joining in on my little problem. I had nowhere to turn to other than our list. I have been though alot already just to get where I can present some kind of case. I tried when I did have money also. Nobody, encluding my church attorney thought the document was good. Breaking it takes alot, and nobody is willing to help. The attorney who wrote it as I said, worked for my mother, not me really, and he thinks his document is great, like he is, hum..... no, he is not willing and he does not know that our family is torn a part over it. He wouldn't even listen. ginnie

Rre: clarification
 

My SSDI check goes into an account with my sons name on it. If I need something like a back door. He can take money out from this arrangement and pay for my back door. He keeps documents and so do I about this, and have signed a rental agreement through my Social security legal aid person. He was the one that figured out how I lost my stamps to begin with. I didn't pay taxes and the agiency insisted that I must in order to receive my food. I hate the system I am forced under, as I cannot survive here on what remains of my money., much less pay for utilities, car insurance, home insurance or any other kind of extra. I will give up my TV if I have to. I only have minimal as it is. My PC is being paid for by a friend so I can come here for help. There is not enough with 296 to live here. My family will be forcing me out at some point or I will have to go into severe debt to be able to stay here. My friend that lives with me is not here to keep me alive in this place. She is here to help with the chores and yard when I cannot do these things. She pays nothing to stay, I should be paying her! The 296 is what I get for dissability. Not much is it. I have been sick since the age of 29 with no health insurance is what happened. My folks tried to help with this trust and it backfired within my family over money. ginnie

Trust re-read
 

The trust is suppose to pay for my taxes. It is written into it. I was not allowed to keep those monies from the trust. I did use it with my sons signature which was always required for any withdrawl for medical proceedures. I would have died had I not used those monies. There was a four year wait for any kind of help and I had 9 surgeries so far. No specialists were willing to see me without payment upfront, encluding the first spinal fussion with no financial help. I was crippled by pain that first time I needed fussion, I continued to degenerate in my spine and had c-3-7- done one year ago. The only medical condition that was really helped by me having medicare. The rest I had to get by on my own. I was not to use money for medical conditions, but would have died, had I not done the medical intervention. My son signed off on any proceedures I had to have done, hence the trust was used. The trust did nothing but hurt me and my family. the fight now is over this home. My up north family parts, want my home and the money it is worth. To sign off, means that I can sell it and move to a place that does not require flood/hurricane insurance, and would be in a less taxed aread. I'd live anywhere, but where on the total of $697 total? the housing projects? my car? a trailer? They would get the money from the house and I would walk away with nothing. I earned half of what this house is worth and put that into it with my mothers money. So I would be walking away from everything I earned, and everything my folks earned, giving it to my two children. NO way, over my dead body will I do that. ginnie

back reward?
 

No back reward from SSDI. Only received that early 2010. Lived just with medicare for years, all that time trying to not spend because I knew what would happen when I ran out. I begged my family the entire time, as I knew I would run out, so my whole existance was stressed financially between wanting to still live here, and receiving medical help. Each withdrawl from monies in there hurt me, as it led to this point of being destitute. I didn't want to have to go down this path, so I asked my family to let me move along time ago. At that time, perhaps my son could have put me in a tiny place inland where I could afford to be. I was willing to live in anything tiny and safe. I had hoped for a Katrina house. I would have been able to give my son all finances, turn all things over to him, so that in turn he could help get me into a place that had survivability. The place I have does not. I am in constant danger of the storms. Wanted to move since the insurance was dropped. A storm would take all, I cannot rebuild, evacuating while being dissabled and getting the home ready is terrible to go through. ginnie

was trustee
 

I was trustee, and my son was co-trustee. When the trust became devoid of money, I turned it over to my son, this house that is in the trust. I also made directive with my own trust so that sean gets the home upon my death. The same lawyer made both trusts, and neithor has been explained to me sufficiently since their conception. Three others called it ambigitious, or open to interpretation by which ever way that particular branch of gov. happends to look at it. Medicare did not know how to interpret the document and asked me what it meant. How am I suppose to know the language? Turning the trust over to my son was advised to me by my CPA. I don't know how that effects the sale or non sale of the house until somebody looks at this case. The lawyer who wrote them will not engage me in conversation since I ran out of money. The lawyer who wrote the trust wanted me to turn over all monies at the time I had money to my son. I do not know why to this day. Why am I to give up all when both my children received enough to get their own homes?. Why will they not sign off is pretty simple, greed and hatred are the only explainations I received. I was told NO through my son, about me asking to move all these years. I was told they didn't have to do anything or respond in any way. They were quite safe from any legal thing I can do, to get out of this home. It hopefully is seans when I leave it. I think I am at the end of what I can do after trying all these years. I will try that legal aid place when I turn 60 and go to the state reps. office to appeal for help. My doctor this could give me a stroke and really wishes there could be a resolution because of what this does to my BP. I need to find a way to exist.votes on what happens never occured, Nobody wants to hear my plea to move, or cares that I make the plea to begin with. I have been abandoned by my family and left in a situation I cannot deal with. ginnie